Balilala Quotes & Sayings

And yet, the chief deficiency I see in the sceptical movement is in its polarization: Us v. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, you're beyond redemption. This is unconstructive. It does not get the message across. It condemns the sceptics to permanent minority status; whereas, a compassionate approach that from the beginning acknowledges the human roots of pseudoscience and superstition might be much more widely accepted. — Carl Sagan

Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it? — Charlize Theron

Because of fear, people who have civil rights can't use them — Sunday Adelaja

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn't come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew. — Anne Moody

Are you saying being normal is being happy ? in that case , most people probably aren't normal — Alexandra Potter

14 The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us — Anonymous

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves. — Charles Spurgeon

Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better. — Jennifer Fallon

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality. — Deepak Chopra

The knowledge of "Where am I going?" comes during the process of implementation and dedication to the task — Sunday Adelaja

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. — Daniel Kahneman

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter. — Thomas Hobbes