"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."

-- Janet Suzman

#Mother Quotes #Feet Quotes #Agnostic Quotes

“Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.169
“What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?”
“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.167, Oxford University Press
“I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.”
“Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.”

Source : Speech in London, England, 1971.
“If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.”
“That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.”
“Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.”

You may also like:

Emun Elliott
Actor
Helen Suzman
Former Member of the Parliament of South Africa
Jonathan Lynn
Film director
Kate Mosse
Novelist
Meera Syal
Comedian
Peter Greenaway
Film director
Robert K. Massie
Historian
Trevor Nunn
Theatre Director
Vanessa Kirby
Tv actress