Famous Quotes & Sayings

William H. Gass

The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.

Voltaire

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc..

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Nancy Reagan

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

Jonathan Swift

I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

Johannes Kepler

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

Johannes Kepler

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

Louis Pasteur

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

Quentin Crisp

You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

Antoni Gaudi

Form does not necessarily follow function

Robert Collier

The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.

Rob Zombie

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

Richard Dawkins

The Universe does not owe us meaning.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Richard Dawkins

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

Richelle Mead

I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel." - Does it get easier? "Yes. But you'll never be the same again.

Richelle Mead

I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

Richard Ford

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Tullian Tchividjian

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Van Morrison

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

Sarah Dessen

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199

Morihei Ueshiba

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

James Salter

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Ludwig von Mises

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

John Buchanan Robinson

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Kim Stanley Robinson

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.