Despiritualised Quotes & Sayings

January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter — Denise Mina

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn. — William Boyd

Uncertainty is worse than all — Alexandre Dumas

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry. — Martin Luther

I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body. — Christina Aguilera

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

You know how that feels? — Gary D. Schmidt

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue. — Mario Cuomo

I don't think that the despiritualised, dehumanised culture in which we live, the McDonalds and Disney culture, does our internal lives, our mythological lives, any favours at all. In other words, to be an Outsider in this culture now is to be looking inside at a plastic world, and I think it's easier to critique that world if I don't belong to it ... In Hollywood where I live now, there's a lot of having lunches, a lot of going to parties ... and I will have no part of that. I'm certainly not very good at it, I don't like it and I feel a little weird about it. I don't want to be part of the problem, I want to be a part of the solution, and the only way I can help solve the problem of the plasticity of our world is by writing, by painting and by making my work, so I stay where I can do that, which is at my desk, in my studio. I will venture out when I need to sell a book or exhibit my paintings, but the rest of the time my job is to be here and imagine. — Clive Barker

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God. — Mark Batterson

Presidents are selected, not elected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I would love to have played Gollum. — Orlando Bloom

When you're sentenced to drive a Smart car on a road where everything else has a speed best described by its mach number, you tend to pay attention. — Charles Stross

To not realize one's dreams is a shame; to not reach for them is a tragedy — Jason Alan

They [the Soviets] intend ... to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict ... Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression. — Anatoliy Golitsyn