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 Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.

Richard Dawkins

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

Richard Whately

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Russell Crowe

I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

Roger Babson

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

Tryon Edwards

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Mike Massucci

During our timeout with :06 left, Travis told me he wanted the ball. It wasn't said with arrogance. It was just an inner-confidence.

Derrick Mason

Coach Billick, he just has a personality about him that you don't understand unless you're playing for him, ... He's all about his players. Did I think it was arrogance when I first got here? Yes. But now that I am here, I truly see what type of coach he is.

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Morshed Khan

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

Rob Bell

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Adolf Hitler

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

Maajid Nawaz

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.