The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and… — Jake Busey Copy Share Image
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants. — Sharat Saxena Copy Share Image
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
“Hope may inspire and inveigle us, but we cannot just live on hope. Certainly, love can be hope, but it is merely… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I… — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the… — Jay Alan Sekulow Copy Share Image
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he… — George Gallup Copy Share Image
People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
