Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Bryant H. McGill

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

Bodhidharma

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Abraham Verghese

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Alexander Hamilton

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Douglas Rushkoff

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly...the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

David Antin

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

Dan Brown

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

E. F. Schumacher

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Thomas Carlyle

All true work is sacred.

Thomas Francis Meagher

A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

Shailene Woodley

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

Shailene Woodley

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

Sherman Alexie

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

Mark Russell

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Nick Kroll

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

Mason Cooley

Sacred texts always offend reason.

Mehmet Oz

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Gary Zukav

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.

Hippocrates

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

Fabrice Luchini

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

George Carlin

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Frederick Leboyer

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Felix Mendelssohn

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

Gwen Stefani

I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.