Sherwin Wine famous quotes

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.
-- Sherwin Wine

#Running #Religion #Ceo

Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.
-- Sherwin Wine

#Religious #Children #Years

There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.
-- Sherwin Wine

#Religious #Father #Past

Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.
-- Sherwin Wine

#Laughing #Praying

You have to fight gravity.
-- Sherwin Wine

#Fighting #Gravity

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.

When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.