Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.’

Susan B. Anthony

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

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.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Julian Casablancas

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature works in parallel ways.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Maggie Siff

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

Maggie Stiefvater

You'll have to go commando." "Is there any other way?

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Dr. Bartzokis

Now we can measure it very specifically with certain MRI techniques.

Juan Lazcano

Freddie's a great trainer and a great person, and I'm just glad to be back with him and on good terms. I was without him for one fight, and that was the Castillo fight. I could feel it. But sometimes we have to go through certain things. It's OK. I take the experience, and I like to think that I'm better for it.

Madeline Kahn

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Christian Camargo

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

Matt Lauer

From time to time, the show has moved in a certain direction -- softer or harder. But obviously we hope that world events dictate the direction we go in.

Anthony Waichulis

From time to time there are certain political statements, but they are not revolutionary, just matter-of-fact observations.

Tony Castro

From the very beginning, she was under the impression that if she did certain things, the charges would go away.

James Taylor

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.