Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

John le Carre

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

Ernest Hemingway

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Thornton Wilder

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

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.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Christy Martin

We're kind of traveling gypsy musicians. We stopped paying rent in 1998. We love touring and we love being on the road, and to do what we're doing it would be impractical to have a home anywhere. So, we had a big garage sale, sold everything but the essentials and that allows us to do about 200 shows a year in 45 states and Ireland.

Ludwig von Mises

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.