Religious Quotes

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.

-Robert Henlin

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-Arthur C. Clarke

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means.

-Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

-Isaac Asimov

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

-Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

-Robert Henlin

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

-W. Somerset Maugham

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

-Wolfgan von Goethe

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

-Emo Philips, stand-up comedian

In the beginning there was nothing and God said, “Let there be light,” and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

-Dave Thomas

A good sermon should be like a woman’s skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

-Ronald Knox

How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.

-Samuel Levenson

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

-G.K. Chesterton

I don’t believe in atheists.

-Neal Boortz

I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

- Robert Henlein(Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land)

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

-Robert Henlein

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

-Peter O’Toole

Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

-Isaac Asimov

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

-Thomas Paine

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

-Bertrand Russell

The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooist brutality, is patently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with the dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.

-John Adams

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

-William Godwin

Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

-Jeff Burroughs

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.

-John Adams

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

-Euripides

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

-James Fenimore Cooper

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

-John Heywood

Every day people are straying away from the church and back to God.

-Lenny Bruce

Door Quotes

Every wall is a door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions. - Robert Collier
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. - Charles L. Allen
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door - Confucius
Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember; even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts. - Anonymous
In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication. - Tenzin Gyatso
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. - Alexandre Dumas

Kylie Minogue Quotes

I don't try to be a sex bomb. I am one.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I think Australians are down to earth, ... We have a good work ethic, and that can only be helpful in this industry.

Come Into My World.

5 Sharon Stone Quotes

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want-except neurosurgery.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.


People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

3 Quotes by Nelly Furtado

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

Quotes about boys

When told by James Naismith, the sport's inventor, that basketball couldn't be coached: Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves.

Phog Allen

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Aristotle

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.
John Aubrey

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind.
Alan Beck

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher

Jennifer Tilly Quotes

Everybody knows that love goes away.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

I have never been with a man who has performed any kind of good cunnilingus. Guys always act really bored. It's like they're... doing you a favor.

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

I think in the beginning, God can't decide if someone's going to be male or female. So he gives you everything and sometimes it isn't until the very last moment that he decides, and sometimes he doesn't make up his mind fast enough. It's like, Uh-oh, whoops! and you get a hermaphrodite.

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

The people I've been intimate with underestimate me the most. Love warps a person's perception of you. A guy in a relationship with you sees what he wants to see, and it takes a long time for that to, you know, transmogrify.

Quotes from Mean Girls (The Movie)

Janis: That little one, that's Gretchen Wieners.
Damian: She's totally rich because her dad invented Toaster Streudels.
Janis: Gretchen Wieners knows everybody's business, she knows everything about everyone.
Damian: That's why her hair is so big, it's full of secrets.
Janis: And evil takes a human form in Regina George. Don't be fooled because she may seem like your typical selfish, back-stabbing slut faced ho-bag, but in reality, she's so much more than that.
Damian: She's the queen bee - the star, those other two are just her little workers.

Janis: That one there, that's Karen Smith. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. Damien sat next to her in English last year.
Damian: She asked me how to spell orange.

Gretchen: I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help it that I'm so popular.

Cady: Hey!
Regina: Why were you talking to Janis Ian?
Cady: I don't know, I mean, she's so weird, she just, you know, came up to me and started talking to me about crack.
Regina: She's so pathetic. Let me tell you something about Janis Ian. We were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It's so embarrassing. I don't even... Whatever. So then in eighth grade, I started going out with my first boyfriend Kyle who was totally gorgeous but then he moved to Indiana, and Janis was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like, if I would blow her off to hang out with Kyle, she'd be like, "Why didn't you call me back?" And I'd be like, "Why are you so obsessed with me?" So then, for my birthday party, which was an all-girls pool party, I was like, "Janis, I can't invite you, because I think you're lesbian." I mean I couldn't have a lesbian at my party. There were gonna be girls there in their *bathing suits*. I mean, right? She was a LESBIAN. So then her mom called my mom and started yelling at her, it was so retarded. And then she dropped out of school because no one would talk to her, and she came back in the fall for high school, all of her hair was cut off and she was totally weird, and now I guess she's on crack.

Sweet Quotes

The qualities that most attract a woman to a man Are usually the same ones she can't stand years later.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. - Javan

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao-Tzu (Famous Chinese Quote)

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson

Tyra Banks Quotes

Here are some quotes by the lovely Tyra Banks:

• Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.
  
• Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.
• I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
• I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.
• Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
• I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
• I liked college guys but they could tell I was just a skinny girl.

Girl Quotes

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. - ALbert Einstein

a girl shuld be two things classy and fabulous - Coco Chanel

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - JD Salinger

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance--but a good line is hard to resist. - Mae West

Big girls need big diamonds. - Elizabeth Taylor

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty - Gregory I

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot - Alan Beck

Quotes about Sex

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob Rubin
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. ~William B. Yeats

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~Woody Allen

Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love. ~Woody Allen

Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ~Marlene Dietrich

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader

Sex is God's joke on human beings. ~Bette Davis

If you use the electric vibrator near water, you will come and go at the same time. ~Louise Sammons

I think I could fall madly in bed with you.

Salma Hayek Quotes

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I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Virginity Quotes

Here are some famous quotes about virginity:

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" - George Carlin

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge" - Voltaire

"Virginity is a bubble in the froth of life - one prick and it's gone" - Unknown

“Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity, you don't realize how irritating it was 'til it's gone” - Unknown

"Credibility is like virginity. Once you lose it, you can never get it back.” - Unknown

“I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.” - Madonna

“There was never virgin got till virginity was first lost” - William Shakespeare

“I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?” - Adam Ant

Quotes by Volitaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

Common sense is not so common.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts

If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact

Men argue, nature acts

Paris Hilton Quotes

Here are some quotes by the popular Paris Hilton

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone-expept a girl who steals your boyfriend

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and ... everybody's hot.

Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

King me, baby ... it's oh-so fashionable.

Quotes About Beauty

Beauty is not in the face;beauty is a light in the heart
~ Kahlil Gibran~
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann von Goeth ~
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~Ivan Panin ~
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~Hellen Keller ~
Personal beauty is a better introduction than any letter;...Diogenes Laertius. Circa 200 A.D.
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum." ~Alexis Carrel ~
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
~Rumi ~
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum." ~Alexis Carrel ~

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Quotes About Sex

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! George Bernard Shaw
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. John Waters
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. Woody Allen
Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman. Woody Allen
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs less. Brendan Francis
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. George Burns
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. Marge Piercy
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance. Thomas Fuller