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I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film. Lars Trier
religious style looks
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. Rob Sheffield
religious thinking opposites
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination. Richard Dawkins
religious giving-up children
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.
religious atheist atheism
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.
religious strong political
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. Richard Whately
religious hero character
I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood. Russell Crowe
religious integrity patriotic
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. Roger Babson
religious errors grace
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. Tryon Edwards
perfection simplicity style
Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection. Jonathan Swift
perfection sake scorn travel
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Richard Bach
perfection soul embodiment
Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance. Hazrat Inayat Khan
perfection mediocrity pursuit
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. Henry Fuseli
perfection use clock
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. Luc de Clapiers
perfection giving laziness
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Lord Chesterfield
perfection joy
Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it. Lupita Nyong'o
perfection promise progress
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. Epictetus
perfection shining done
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs. Emily Carr
lust impulse primitive
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. Rose Macaulay
lust heat fantasy
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. Salman Rushdie
lust despair valleys
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down. William Faulkner
lust disease thee
Lust-bred diseases rot thee. John Donne
lust delayed
Love delayed is lust augmented. Louis de Bernieres
lust finding-yourself world
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert. Hermann Hesse
lust everyday skins
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. Alice Munro
lust path obstacles
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. Susan Sontag
lust love-and-lust company
I know love and lust don't always keep the same company. Stephenie Meyer