Quotes about t
thinking voice curves
When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains. Valerie June
thinking self play
They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.
thinking years bikinis
I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of? Valerie Bertinelli
track racing different
It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on Valentino Rossi
thinking design personality
I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.
thinking animal looks
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. Ulrich Walter
thinking taught female
And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive. Uma Thurman
trying
It is technically a failure when you don't try.
thinking brain stories
I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
thinking
I think that life force is invaluable.
thinking people community
I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.
taken long risk
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
thinking expectations difficult
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
thinking suffering verbs
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. Ulysses S. Grant
two lessons matter
But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.
thinking gossip design
A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable. Umberto Eco
thinking feelings philosopher
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.
thinking amusing certain
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
thinking stones way
Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.
two ignorant culture
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
trying worthwhile hypothesis
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. Richard Dawkins
taken islamic sacrifice
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact, and the appropriate response is two-fold. First, many, many people, even to this day, do take the whole of their scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Secondly, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? Then what kind of lesson could be derived from this appalling story?
track changing-environment doe
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.
thinking interesting people
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.
two religion two-religions
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
teacher hurt husband
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.
thinking ideas giving
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we exist, we have to be in the kind of universe capable of giving rise to us. That in itself is, I think, unsatisfying, and as John Lennox rightly says, some physicists solve that by the multiverse idea-the idea that our universe is just one of many universes.
thinking giving heaven
One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn't respect them, you'd probably give them a wide berth.
thinking make-you-think religion
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
teacher children believe
I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.
thinking asking-the-right-questions answers
In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.
thinking mad-cow-disease evil
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
thinking law ideas
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protégé of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.