Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Michael W. Smith

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Michael Lerner

We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

Simon Wiesenthal

You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

Rajneesh

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Rajneesh

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

John McCain

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

Adrienne Rich

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

Dan Brown

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.

Ambrose Bierce

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Susan Blackmore

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

Susan Cain

The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it

Stonewall Jackson

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed.

Steve Coogan

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

Steve Coogan

The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.

Ronald Knox

The study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Ken Wilber

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Mark Twain

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.