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Offers Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
- Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
- Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing…
- Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and…
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
- I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is…
More Offers Quotes
- If you come across something good, you should hold on and never let it go. Life offers you a thousand chances, all… — Nishan Panwar
- Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them.… — Jodi Picoult
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in… — William Shakespeare
- If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel… — Cassandra Clare
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden