Humanistic Perspective Quotes & Sayings

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one. — Chinua Achebe

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure. — E.F. Schumacher

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want. — T. J. Miller

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off. — Bonnie Raitt

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not. — Adoniram Judson

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me. — S.A. Tawks

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches. — Wladimir Klitschko

The full radiance of light is love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He sucked in a breath, his head snapping back from hers. Groaning as he filled her, she arched her back against him, her nipples stroking his chest with the movement. They weren't going to make it to the living room. "Wall or floor?" he managed. — Katie Reus

Seriously, how was it possible that this huge, sexy male even existed? — Savannah Stuart

Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way. — Christine Kane

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. — Susanna Moodie

Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path. — Pope Francis

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs. — James Bay