I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I've spent the last few years really trying to come out of that belief system. Speaking mythologically, it's like Beauty and the… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
My beloved soul, having awakened at last into My Peace, you can return consciously and completely to your own Original Source. As… — Lex Hixon Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I meet with virtually everybody that comes down to Olympia, that Facebook messages me or emails me or calls me on the… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence.… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting.… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
One of the lessons we've learned from the last 25 years of terrorism is that groups that have safe havens are able… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or… — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today… — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought… — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
Animals are a huge part of my life, so yes, if you are going to be a part of my life, you… — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image
It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
