Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with its religious conviction that the market, left to its own devices, is capable of resolving all our problems. This faith has its own ayatollahs. Its church is neo-liberalism; its creed is profit; its prayers are for monopolies.

C. S. Lewis

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

Alan Keyes

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

Charlie Dent

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

Charlie Chaplin

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

Charles Tupper

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

Charles Tupper

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

Charles Sumner

I am without religious feeling.

Charles de Lint

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

William Galston

The poor don't need their consciousness raised as to what a good life looks like,

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Elon Musk

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Phil Bredesen

We did not even have a 30-day notice to prepare ourselves so that we could at least have a supply of medications while we tried to figure out what to do next, ... How can you in all good consciousness tolerate this kind of a practice?

Jay Lefkowitz

We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in North Korea and the terrible deprivation of human rights by that regime.

Eckhart Tolle

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

Eckhart Tolle

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

Eckhart Tolle

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Claudia Christian

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

Dick Morris

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Ana Gasteyer

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

Alejo Carpentier

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

Nicolas Cage

It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time.

Natalia Makarova

Being spontaneous, it’s what saved me,

John Ciardi

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

Gottfried Leibniz

All things in God are spontaneous.

Emily Blunt

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.