We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ,… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential factor is that they are taken… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh,… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter,… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a… — Ninian Stephen Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes,… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Remember, folks, every one of these Republicans in Senate sees the world through the eyes of the left. Every one of these… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
“At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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