Burton Russell Quotes

#1. If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#2. Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers

Adam P. Knave

#3. With a sort of mental squint.

Lewis Carroll

#4. There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Richard Roxburgh

#6. Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#7. I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

Jackie Gleason

#8. If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will.

Martin Pistorius

#9. For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.

John Piper

#11. We are, each of us, is a little Universe

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

Emily VanCamp

#13. I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them.

Anne Bronte

#14. Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#15. People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Bruce Lee

#16. Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.

Paula Miranda

#17. It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#18. Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.

Karen Hawkins