Nontheist Friends Quotes & Sayings

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. — Oscar Wilde

I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?' — Patton Oswalt

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. — Dana Carvey

When I see Steve Davis I see two letters ... C S ... Cue Sorceror. — Sid Waddell

Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way. — Frederick Lenz

Unless you're able to look at marriage through the lens of Scripture instead of through your own fears or romanticism, through your particular experience, or through your culture's narrow perspectives, you won't be able to make intelligent decisions about your own marital future. — Timothy Keller

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. — Horace

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about. — Cecil Murphey

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on. — Don Mattingly

My design was not so much to contribute new facts as to shape the narrative in such a way as to emphasize relations of cause and effect that are often buried in the mass of details. — John Fiske

The HAPPIEST people don't have the BEST of everything ... They just drink WINE. — Tanya Masse

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. — Nick Cave