Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heywood Broun

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Lorne Michaels

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Henry Jenkins

Social connectivity, creativity and learning take place through these various media-related experiences.

Shimon Peres

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Karen Horney

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Karl Lagerfeld

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Jon Stewart

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

Jon McGregor

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Joyce Carol Oates

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Anais Nin

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Susan Sontag

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Roger Rosenblatt

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Roger Rosenblatt

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Russ Roberts

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Rush Limbaugh

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Thomas Merton

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.