Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

Richard Dawkins

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't.

Andy Pettitte

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow.

Weylan Harding

I'd be lying if I said otherwise. This one's going to be special.

Steve McMahon

I'd be lying if I said I was pleased with him,

Jason Spezza

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about it a bit.

Tom Smith

I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a pang. What's done is done but you always have regrets.

Kevin Connors

I'd be lying by saying that we want anything else. With the year we've had you have to feel like we have a chance.

Robert Creeley

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

Robert Collier

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

John Burness

Joe wanted to reach out to students who felt they'd like support and provide answers for anything they felt they needed to know.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Yates

It answers the question; we feel the engine program is pretty solid, ... There is a long list of things that make up a good race team, and when you can eliminate one of those variables, it's nice.

John Green

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

David Trimble

The people that we really need the answers from are the Republican movement and what they've got to do is they have got to tell us what they are going to do.

Peter Young

We support the general concept of a World Cup but like everything else with Twenty20, there are more questions than answers and we'd like a bit more time to look at everything.

Tom Clark

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.

Alex Jones

The answer to 1984 is 1776.