A Manual For Creating Atheists Quotes

#1. He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. - but thought solely that it enlightened him, made him see, cynically and withough false expectations, so that he felt he was alive.

Dag Solstad

#2. Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

John Jay Chapman

#4. If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Maureen McCormick

#5. The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.

William Blake

#6. My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech. It wouldn't be transcribed in the form of words arranged linearly, but as a giant ideogram, to be absorbed as a whole.

Ted Chiang

#7. For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

Nico Rosberg

#8. To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

Ryuho Okawa

#9. Learn to absorb your anger inside you
It will be your best partner till you breath

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#10. Real compassion only exists in silence

Petra Hermans

#11. How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

Jay Leno

#12. [Are we] far more comfortable with the idea of poor people killing themselves in despair than with the idea of them fighting back?

Arundhati Roy