Humanista Secular Quotes & Sayings

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. - ANONYMOUS — Melody Beattie

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost. — Lucius Beebe

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. — Joichi Ito

As with most habitual drinkers, he was a nice enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy when sober. Everyone thought of him as a nice-enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy. He thought so too. That's why he drank. Because it seemed that with alcohol in his system, he could more fully embody this idea of being that kind of guy. — Haruki Murakami

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people. — Howard Schultz

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better. — Robert Webb

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. — Wallace Stevens

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life. — Samuel Johnson

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead. — Peter Cushing

The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. — Alexander MacLaren

I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay? — Enrique Vila-Matas

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events. — Andre Maurois

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been. — Rick Joyner

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. — Clement Greenberg