Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

Bede Griffiths

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Beck

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

B. B. King

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

B. F. Skinner

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Bill Sienkiewicz

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

Bill Sienkiewicz

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

Alfred Adler

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Anais Nin

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Hubert H. Humphrey

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Fran Drescher

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

Mason Cooley

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Lionel Trilling

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.