Post Secular World Quotes & Sayings

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. — Arthur Bremer

If psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of constructing meaning in a postreligious world, what does it mean that I'm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday? — David Rakoff

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me. — John Ruskin

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet. — Diablo Cody

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. — Thomas Lovejoy

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually. — Eleanor Catton

Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right! — Xosha Roquemore

Above all, what is our culture, and what has remained of it? Is European culture perhaps nothing more than the technology and trade civilization that has marched triumphantly across the planet? Or is it instead a post-European culture born on the ruins of the ancient European cultures?
There is a paradoxical synchrony in these developments. The victory of the post-European techno-secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value system, culture, and faith (in other words, the very foundations of its identity) have reached the end of the road and have indeed already disappeared. — Pope Benedict XVI

It is not easy to talk about a condition once dismissed as 'the career women's disease'. But women will continue to suffer until we realise the cost of ignoring it — Hilary Mantel

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional. — Cobi Jones

[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh. — Ricky Gervais

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt. — Carl Andre

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.' — Robin Hobb