"There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?"

-- Daniel Dennett

#Religious Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Followers Quotes

“Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.”
“When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.”
“I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.”

Source : "Josh Duhamel's career goals finally coming true". www.today.com. June 24, 2009.
“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.”
“Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.”

Source : "Walberg, Rooney clash over abortion" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. May 17, 2010.
“I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.”

Source : Emil Nolde, Werner Haftmann (1959). “Emil Nolde”
“I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.”

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