Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William James

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Robert Green Ingersoll

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Jeff Zucker

He expressed the position that NBC is in, ... We're in a rebuilding phase. Nobody's in denial about that.

Wally Lamb

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Rex Grossman

I knew right away and I was kind of in denial to start with. But I knew. I heard a pop. I tried to make it work. I was trying to walk it off. I knew right away.

Rex Grossman

I knew right away, and I was kind of in denial to start with,

Tomas Taterka

Even with the denial of immediate plans, there are expectations of stock buyout in the medium term. If they completely rule this out, however, the stock will quickly fall.

Nikki Reed

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

Eckhart Tolle

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

Jock Sturges

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

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.