"According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God's non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who denied God with the top of their minds, but men who, while apparently incapable of doubting him with the top of their minds, lived as though he did not exist."

-- John Baillie

#Atheist Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.449, Univ of California Press
“Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.”
“The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.”
“She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light ***** cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.”

Source : "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.
“My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.”
“I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.”
“A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.”
“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.”

Source : Gideon Haigh (2010). “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents”, p.197, Victory Books

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