Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Katharine Hepburn

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

George MacDonald

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

George MacDonald

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

John Burroughs

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

John Fowles

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

John Fowles

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Jonathan Haidt

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

Joseph McCabe

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Jeremy Piven

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Marcelo Balboa

He was like a second father to me,

Richelle Mead

A man can never compete with a woman's father

Michel de Montaigne

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

Eskimo Proverb

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.

John Ford

Nice philosophy/ May tolerate unlikely arguments,/ But heaven admits no jest.

Carlos Watson

Shoot for the stars, at least if you don't reach it, you can land in the heavens.

Enrique Salas

She is very little to understand Mama is not going to come back. But she understands Mama is in heaven watching over her. In the future, it's going to be hard.

Jerome K. Jerome

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Jim Elliot

Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

Jim Gaffigan

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

Jim Bakker

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.