Skeptically Def Quotes & Sayings

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven. — Narendra Modi

That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure".
"Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid. — Kristina Douglas

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack

I'm standing here in just my panties, my hand on your dick. Does it look like I want to stop?"
--Angela Abbott, in Dirty Little Secret — Sophia Ryan

... I touch your absence here
Remembering the speeches of your hair. — Carlos A. Angeles

Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night. — Jo Dee Messina

Whatever is done by design is always overdone. — Charlotte Lennox

The law is the survival of the fittest ... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival. — Herbert Spencer

I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth. — Kate Moss

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith. — Nirmala Srivastava

the change I want to define and trace is one which takes us from a society in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is one human possibility among others. I may find it inconceivable that I would abandon my faith, but there are others, including possibly some very close to me, whose way of living I cannot in all honesty just dismiss as depraved, or blind, or unworthy, who have no faith (at least not in God, or the transcendent). Belief in God is no longer axiomatic. There are alternatives. And this will also likely mean that at least in certain milieux, it may be hard to sustain one's faith. — Charles Taylor

The more we know about the former world, the better we'll understand what happened when it fell. — Emily St. John Mandel