"Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope."

-- Stephen Batchelor

#Empathy Quotes #Demand Quotes #Shifting Quotes

“Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues, but I don't think we should go to extremes.”
“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“When I would feel down...I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day...Poof! They would all disappear.”
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”

Source : E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.126, Cornell University Press
“A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.”
“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”
“God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved.Â If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness?Â All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea.Â If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator.Â Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort.”
“Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.”

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