Skeptics Bible Annotated Quotes & Sayings

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico

Adam Smith, who suggested that the "horror of poverty" lay not in hunger but in "obscurity." Poor people suffer the indignity of being ignored. "To be wholly overlooked, and to know it, are intolerable." And if poor people cannot look to themselves, then they must look up to another person, whom they consider a hero. Their identification with heroes provided meaning in life. In a complicated set of discourses, John argued that all men, from the highest to the lowest ranks, depend upon titles to give meaning to their existence. — Edith B. Gelles

Everyone who is with you is not necessarily for you. — Connie R. Clay

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go. — Ken Follett

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds. — Susan Hill

Suddenly Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free. — Lois Lowry

To me, it was a human story about what it costs to be yourself, and the reward too. It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting. I wonder how many people get tempted by the gains they can make by playing a role, only to pay for those temptations in public isolation. — Donald Miller

The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you. — David Oakes

I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me. — Christopher Atkins

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away. — Nicole Kidman