Nonsectarian Example Quotes & Sayings

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. — Dick Gregory

I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island, but everything is drowsy as two sailors go up the trail with fishing poles and a dog between them to go make love quietly in the hills: the captain and everybody know they're queer and rather than being infuriated however they're all drowsily enchanted by such gentle love ... (p. 119) — Jack Kerouac

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world. — Frederick Lenz

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. — Marty Rubin

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield

We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history. — John Eliot

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source. — Terry Brooks

My brother," Will growled. "And your friend. You'd better not treat him the way you treat me. — Courtney Allison Moulton

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. — Juvenal

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. — Ian Hislop

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter. — Ian McKellen