Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

Bruce Kent

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Eddie Vedder

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

E. O. Wilson

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

E. O. Wilson

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Dalai Lama

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

Dalai Lama

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Dalai Lama

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Blaise Pascal

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Deborah Tannen

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Angel Haze

Love is boundary-less.

Rumi

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Rumi

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Rumi

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

Rumi

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

George Carlin

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

George Bernard Shaw

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

H. L. Mencken

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.