Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Lewis

It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right

Julia Sweeney

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

Richard P. Feynman

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Richard Dawkins

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Richard Dawkins

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?

Richard Dawkins

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Richard Dawkins

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Richard Dawkins

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

William Harvey

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

William E. Gladstone

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

William E. Gladstone

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

Wendell Berry

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Petro Poroshenko

He didn't look in my eyes the entire time he was reading his statement.

Patrick Swayze

He just dropped. And the entire responsibility of the family suddenly was on me.

Paul Doyle

He's devastated. The one main focus of the entire year was the world championships, so it's pretty tough.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Jason Keller

Kentucky may not be on the top of the international terror hit list, but grants like this make people safer on a day-to-day basis.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Ivan Turgenev

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to thisGreat God, grant that twice two be not four.

Mack Brown

We take for granted now what he does. He does whatever he needs to do to win.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Alan Thompson

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Virginia Woolf

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Erich Dumbeck

I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something done through the legal system that says, 'Don't do this again,' and I don't know what that means to do that are.

Steve Hall

I have two legal opinions that say that it's unconstitutional.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Billy Beane

Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Michael Morris

I'm trying to get to a comprehensive, system approach.

Ben Agosto

The new system allows for some of that unpredictability.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.