Guiseley Quotes & Sayings

...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some senseless tragedy. An atheist might be no less staggered by such an event, but nonbelievers often experienced a kind of calm acceptance: shit happens, and this particular shit happened to them. It could be more difficult for a person of faith to get to his feet precisely because he had to reconcile God's love and care with the stupid, brutal fact that something irreversibly terrible had happened. — Mary Doria Russell

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum — Albert C. Barnes

In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry
in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt. — Dodie Smith

One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick? — Donna Lynn Hope

I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow. — George R R Martin

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. — Werner Herzog

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. — Juan Goytisolo

Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency. — Jared Lee Loughner

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief. — Richard Posner

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood. — Rajneesh

Every time I see someone taking care of a baby, I think why in the world would anyone willingly saddle themselves with that responsibility? — Dov Davidoff

Never try to have the last word. You might get it. — Robert A. Heinlein