Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Nathan Fillion

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Pearl S. Buck

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

John D. Rockefeller

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Paolo Bacigalupi

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

John F. Kennedy

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

William Howard Taft

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Voltaire

What can I hope when all is right?

Walter F. Mondale

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

John Adams

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

James Randi

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

Luther Burbank

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

Luther Burbank

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

Luther Burbank

Science is the only savior.

Os Guinness

Atheism thrives on bad religion.