Famous Secular Quotes & Sayings

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference. — Saadat Hasan Manto

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost. — Neil Diamond

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind ... Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them? — David Gemmell

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness. — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance. — Shantideva

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies. — Edmond Rostand

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. — Alan Shepard

He stole my music but he gave me my name. — Mick Jagger

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin. — Isabelle Hardesty

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. — Andrew Wiles

We want people to represent us in politics - and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it - or considering it - aesthetics is there. — Eli Siegel