Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Armstrong

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

Joseph Campbell

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.

Ulrich Beck

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Ahmet Zappa

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Alan Cohen

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chris Bosh

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Richard Rogers

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

Alex Beuzelin

Lighter-than-usual trading volumes, due to the Assumption Day holiday in Europe, facilitated the single currency's gains,

Abdul Sattar

Of course, the assumption that Pakistan is in a position to exercise complete influence is flawed.

Richard Conway

One thing that he said was the assumption that a sniper was a single person could not be further from the truth,

Tim Fitzpatrick

My assumption is that ... they ... found out that PC World had named the 7170 to its top 10 list in 2005, so the choice was easy for them.

David Davenport

My assumption from talking with Ken in the interview process is that the investigation will go forward. I think he feels confident that there is a good team of people in place who are working on it and he has several more months to be part of the investigation before he reports for duty out here.

Dorothy Allison

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.

Abby Cohen

The primary assumption is that economic and profit growth will resume by midyear.

John Taylor

The price point is certainly an impressive value statement, ... I think the going assumption is you have to pay about $10 a month to be involved in a gaming community like this, so to offer a one time fee of $49.99 is going to make it a lot less challenging for kids or teens to get permission to play. I think it's a key price point position.