Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.
IRVIN D. YALOMLive with your century; but do not be its creature.
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That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
GEORGE LUCAS -
My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
ADAM SAVAGE -
“I don’t know if I’ve got the will to even do this.” It’s the type of game that doesn’t let you walk away so that’s what happened, I just kept coming back to it until something really happened for me.
BELLY -
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
ADRIENNE RICH -
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE -
But the world is exhausted, and the only wealth we have left is love.
COURTNEY PEPPERNELL -
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE -
Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night.
W. C. FIELDS -
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS -
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
BRANDON MULL -
I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I’m not going to be involved in good fights, then what’s the point being a boxer?
TYSON FURY -
We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That’s what Egypt is all about.
RICK RIORDAN -
I’d love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God – much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI -
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.
GUY RITCHIE -
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
BILL VAUGHAN