Atheistic Humanism Famous Peoples Quotes & Sayings

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it? — Marcus Aurelius

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present ... gratefully. — Maya Angelou

Whether *****s's feel me or not regardless style heartless foul
Spit in front of the hardest crowds
If They start booing I'm sticking fans Artest style — Vakill

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music. — Frankie Manning

I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning. — Travis Barker

we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This — Thomas Jefferson

Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scared
Of people who aren't like them, I think that's weird. — Christina Engela

Of every aspect of the moor, the earth and stone and rain and fire, the wind is the strongest one in Near. Here on the outskirts of the village, the wind is always pressing close, making windows groan. It whispers and it howls and it sings. It can bend its voice and cast it into any shape, long and thin enough to slide beneath the door, stout enough to seem a thing of weight and breath and bone. The wind was here when you were born, when I was born, when our house was built, when the Council was formed, and even when the Near Witch lived, — Victoria Schwab

What I have is a general and very personal knowledge of food. I know which food I enjoy. I know which food I hate. I know how food makes me feel — Jim Gaffigan

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers. — Bill Keller

The meaning of these lines is anything but passive for it suggests that evil can be made absurd through excess; it suggests rendering evil absurd through dwarfing its demands with the volume of your compliance, which devalues the harm. This sort of thing puts a victim into a very active position, into the position of a mental aggressor. The victory that is possible here is not a moral but an existential one. — Joseph Brodsky

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself. — Christine Lagarde

I said 'Whoa, little hottie,
I'm not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti.
I don't deal coke,
And furthermore you're making me broke.
I'll put you in a rehab and I won't tell your folks.'
And what do you know,
In 18 months she came home,
And I let her back in ...
And now she's sniffing again. — Daryl Barnes

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had. — Gloria Feldt