Category: Notable Quotes

"Oh come on, because we thought that Sarah Palin was the better candidate." ~ John McCain on Monday on why he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate over Mitt Romney in 2008.

"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." ~ General Omar Bradley

"If you want the American Dream, go to Finland." ~ Ed Miliband, UK Labor Leader

‎"Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Every bit of you has been replaced many times over (which is why you eat, of course). You are not even the same shape as you were then. The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, while simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that doesn't make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important." ~ Steve Grand (Creation: Life and How To Make It)

"The problem—often not discovered until late in life—is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies that they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, and they generate their own emotion." ~ Neil deGrassi Tyson

"I guess it comes down to deciding which you find more offensive:

1) Using profanity to point out that there are plenty of things in the Bible we all ignore, or

2) Calling the Bible the absolute, unerring, infallible word of God, and then only obeying the chunks that let you feel superior to other human beings.

I say #2."~ Dave Holmes

‎"It's a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome," he explains. "'Panem et Circenses' translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power." ~ Suzanne Collins in her book "Mockingjay" pg. 223

"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." ~ Carl Sagan (1934-1996), American astronomer, astrophysicist, and author

"It seems all religion now has a fixation with homosexuality. This is because religion has not done the hard work of evolving and accepting modern day reality. So, they look for a reason to reject modernity and a scapegoat for the gullible to blame. Religion really needs to look within and ask why thousand year old myths trump truth, science and reality. They need to ask themselves why religion increasingly only appeals to the desperate, fearful and retarded. They need to ask why any conscious non-sociopathic human these days will reject everything religion stands for." ~ Sampy, in a comment left at Joe.My.God.

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." ~ Mark Twain

"Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous." ~ Ricky Gervais

"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyway." ~ Robert Downey Jr.