As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELTo one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
BILL NIGHY -
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
BABE RUTH -
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
HARRIET TUBMAN -
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL -
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
I couldn’t resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He’s just not as tall, but I couldn’t tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
AMY WINEHOUSE -
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKA -
The idea of justice – even just dreaming of justice – is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust – and then tries to make it more accountable.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS -
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
CORNEL WEST -
Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD -
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
FIDEL CASTRO -
Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
KEANU REEVES -
Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLIN -
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISP -
What we truly desire is living without desire.
FRODE GASLAND -
The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINS -
There is energy and power in a crisis.
ANDREW CUOMO -
I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
AMELIA EARHART -
Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
JEAN HOUSTON -
Naturally animals are very special to me, especially dogs.
BENJAMIN STONE -
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY -
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
LEO BUSCAGLIA -
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS