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.

Tad Williams

If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God... except for the aspirations of fallen angels....

Tadao Ando

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

Tacitus

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Sylvia Plath

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

Swami Vivekananda

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

Rupert Everett

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

Tom Robbins

Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

Elliott Sadler

The world's not over with, ... I've got some great sponsors on this race car that believe in us whether we made it or not. I got a great car owner in Robert Yates. We've just got to try and maybe get that 11th spot.

Richard Keller

The whole situation with Epson, the patent issue... we have to be careful. We believe our products don't infringe its patents. We have our own patents.

Flip Saunders

They all believe in Santa. There is a Santa. You have to believe in Santa.

Robby Gordon

The Wood Brothers' car and ours are the only one-car teams in the top 25 (in points), and I'm very confident that we'll be able to stay there. It's not about how many cars you field that determines where you'll finish, it's how well prepared each of those cars are, and I believe we're as well prepared as most.

Dot Matthews

This is going to be a messy bankruptcy, and it is going to take a long time to sort through. We believe that will be a minimum of two years, and given the complexity of this bankruptcy, could very well be longer.

Alan Autry

This is from my heart. I believe this represents what most Fresnans in Fresno County would want us to do. We've got a number that we can handle physically. It is not a drain,

Brenda Talbert

This is everything we've been advocating. We believe very strongly in public-private initiatives. We're very pleased with the mix of rental and for-sale.

Li Hong

This is even my first time to see ice and snow, who could believe that I am eating in an ice restaurant?

Lorna Tilbian

This is disappointing, as we believe the logic for combining the two businesses is compelling.