Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Coady

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

Charles Spurgeon

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Denis Diderot

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Elbert Hubbard

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Elbert Hubbard

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Elbert Hubbard

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Caroline Leavitt

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

Amos Oz

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

Rebecca Zeffert

These are things that we wouldn't normally read about in the Hebrew press.

Shane Claiborne

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Cynthia Ozick

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

John Flavel

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

Puff Daddy

You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

E. P. Thompson

made it clear that they were only accepting monetary contributions and therefore that was our first efforts was city staff in support of it.

Robert Stutman

Many parents would be upset if their kids used drugs but many are accepting if their kid has been drinking. They consider drinking a beer as a right of passage in high school. I know of students using ecstasy all night and then they drink a beer when they get home and mom or dad smells the beer and thinks it's fine.

Mark Feldstein

Much of what passes for news in Washington is very hurried leaks from officials in power, whether in a corridor conversation or a thirty second phone call. And the media is far too credulous of accepting the word of Washington officialdom when it comes to self-serving leaks or publishing self-serving information.

Anthony Browne

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

Poul Anderson

My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some extent, of what you can do, accepting limitations.

Terrell Karlsten

Never accepting calls from people they don't know . . . . Never giving out personal information to strangers.

Michael Krepon

New Delhi has adopted an enlightened approach to helping Pakistan during this tragedy, and a backward approach to accepting foreign humanitarian assistance on its side of the Kashmir divide.

John Major

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.