Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Charles Stross

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

Charles Stross

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

Alan Watts

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Alan Alda

I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

Edmond de Goncourt

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

David Hume

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

Kurt Vonnegut

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

Bill O'Reilly

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Dan Scott

We've actually got a mail-order pharmacy looking at us. They've basically told us, if we stay at 2 -to-1, they're not coming.

Jake Geller

We're inclusive of people with all abilities. We don't separate the disabled people from the able body people. Because once you're in the boat and you're with other people, you're basically on the same level as everyone else in the boat.

Cindy Fushimi

We spent part of our practice the other day talking to the girls about this, how January's an important month because it's packed full of events. This is the month where we are trying out new skills and basically upgrading the difficulty. You find out what is working, what's not working and what you need to work on still for February.

Louie Gohmert

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Ai Sugiyama

Whenever we have the Olympics or the Fed Cup, our schedule becomes very tight and I couldn't play the last couple of years. Everything is fine with me this year.

Eric Goldstein

When folks find out the garbage is from New York, all of a sudden it becomes even more of a political issue.

Jason Calacanis

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Charlie Fink

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Rebecca Murrell

We have a standoff of witnesses. It's never easy to tell who's telling the truth.

Charles Stanley

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Charles Stanley

Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?

Charles Spurgeon

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Spurgeon

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Charles Spurgeon

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

David Dunn

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

Benicio Del Toro

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

Benicio Del Toro

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Beau Mirchoff

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

Bear Grylls

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Barry Alvarez

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,

Audrina Patridge

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

Arnold Palmer

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Lakpa Sherpa

We have no car, no bicycle, and no roads. We have to walk everywhere.

Frank Robinson

With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.

Jack Ford

They do have a right to walk on the Toledo sidewalks,

Rob Blake

It's the same as any year when I've walked in here.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

Shawn Springs

Now I'm in my 10th year, I make a lot of money, and I can still walk without (limping). He was a visionary.

Alex Honnold

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.