"Iâ€™m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So youâ€™ll never find me on your doorstep on a Saturday morning with a big smile saying â€˜Just stopped by to tell you there is no word. I brought along this little blank book I was hoping you could take a look at.â€™"

-- Paula Poundstone

#Morning Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Book Quotes

“Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.”
“In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."”
“You need to balance arrogance and humilitywhen you buy anything, it's an arrogant act. You are saying the markets are gyrating and somebody wants to sell this to me and I know more than everybody else so I am going to stand here and buy it. I am going to pay an 1/8th more than the next guy wants to pay and buy it. That's arrogant. And you need the humility to say 'but I might be wrong.' And you have to do that on everything”
“Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.”
“Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.”
“I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.”
“Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.”

Source : "Young Republican Roundtable: Shifting Views After Election Of Donald Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 13, 2016.
“Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit”

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