Heretically Quotes & Sayings

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it. — Bea Arthur

Judging by the lopsided way she was hunched, with one hand buried deep under the lapel of her coat, Strike deduced that he had saved her by grabbing a substantial part of her left breast. — Robert Galbraith

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both. — Vera Wang

Lesbians have never been more popular. — David Letterman

She was a daughter of the Virgin of Montserrat, and she felt instinctively and of course heretically that the Virgin herself was only a symbol of a yet greater sister-mother who was carefree and sorrowful all at once, a goddess who didn't guide you or shield you but only went with you from place to place and added her tangible presence to your own when required. — Helen Oyeyemi

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. — E.B. White

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others. — V.C. Andrews

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time. — Marsha Thomason

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. — Henry Clay

This is how we piece together our past. We do it like a jigsaw puzzle, where there are missing pieces. But so long as we have enough of the pieces, we can know what belongs in the gaps. — Nathan Filer

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does. — Nina George

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer. — Peter Wessel Zapffe