"Atheism is the absence of religion. We donâ€™t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion."

-- Penn Jillette

#Atheism Quotes #Needs Quotes #Absence Quotes

“If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.”

Source : Interview with Tamler Sommers, believermag.com. March 2003.
“I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues.”
“Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.”
“My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.”
“There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.”
“I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.”

Source : "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.
“I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.”
“Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail”

Source : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.74, SteinerBooks

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