Famous Quotes & Sayings

William De Morgan

I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.

Mel Gibson

The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. Nobody is the same. I'll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they're all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I'm not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it's a whole other world.

Philippe Petit

Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Philip Pullman

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Philip Pullman

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Paul Kurtz

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

William Howard Taft

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

Vladimir Lenin

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

Vladimir Lenin

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Robert M. Pirsig

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

Walter Martin

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

Voltaire

What can I hope when all is right?

Wilhelm Stekel

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Walter F. Mondale

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.