Outgrowing God Quotes

#1. I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

William Gibson

#2. When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn

#3. They come through you but not from you,

Kahlil Gibran

#4. Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.

Tabitha King

#5. Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?"
"Most of the time she just threatened to send me to my room."
"That doesn't sound so scary to me."
"That's because you haven't met her.

Richelle Mead

#6. True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature ... It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

Dennis Merzel

#7. Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. I don't like to overcook songs.

Courtney Barnett

#9. People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

Constantine Karamanlis

#10. If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Sheila Jeffreys

#12. He is both the Raffe I know and a terrifying stranger. He looks like a pissed-off demigod. I've only glimpsed him once in this perfect angel form.

Susan Ee

#13. That's the thing about the places we come from - they probably say the least about who we really are than anything.

Rebecca Serle