Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

P. J. Harvey

Just for six weeks, one time. A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

John Lindh

It is comforting to know that you have found a lawyer.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Nicole Wolff

I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I've been shooting well in practice, but I just rush my shots when I get into the game. Obviously I haven't been scoring much. I think I was just more relaxed.

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Brian Harris

May you, my friend, find God sends comforting warmth, to speed you back to your rekindled and welcoming hearth.

David Nicholls

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

Mario Cuomo

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

R. Inge

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Marianne Williamson

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Willie Geist

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Chere Avery

Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.

Beck

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

C. S. Lewis

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

C. S. Lewis

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

C. S. Lewis

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Cecelia Ahern

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Bill Vaughan

The fact is that I loved being in England.