"For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved."

-- J. J. C. Smart

#Atheist Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”
“I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.”

Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.9, Open Road Media
“I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.”
“After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important.”
“Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 159, 1895.
“When I hear a writer say that they â€˜put in a call,â€™ I want to pull my hair out.”
“Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.”
“Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.”

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