4heard Quotes & Sayings

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. — Richard Dawkins

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own. — Sarah Brightman

he - I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun - — Charlotte MacLeod

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. — Charles Mackay

A flush works over my cheeks and grows when Rolondo says, "And here I thought I was pointing out the impact of our divergent socio-economic status when faced with potential agent induced incentives." We both look at each other for a second then laugh again. "Fucking Sociology major," I mutter. "Henry-muthafucka-Higgins. You gonna Eliza Doolittle me?" "There you go again, trying to get me to do you. Let the dream die, man. — Kristen Callihan

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. — Jeanette Winterson

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. — Robert Doisneau

Emotional intensity" doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word "zanshin" is larded down with a lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand. And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110 percent. The businessman makes another attack. This one is pretty straightforward: a quick shuffling approach and then a snapping cut in the direction of Hiro's ribcage. Hiro parries it. — Neal Stephenson