Quotes About Secularity

#1. All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.

David Novak

#2. Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

Kim Clijsters

#3. Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there ... when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes ... you don't know what that's like.

J.K. Rowling

#4. RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!

William Shakespeare

#5. Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.

Anne Carson

#6. There were many who went in huddled procession,
They knew not wither,
But, at any rate, success or calamity
Would attend all in equality.
There was one who sought a new road,
He went into direful thickets,
And ultimately he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage.

Stephen Crane

#7. If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#8. Your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Adam Braun

#9. Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Daniel Webster

#10. It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.

Jessie J.

#11. I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

George McGovern

#12. I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.

Dikembe Mutombo

#13. Getting older isn't always about having fun," he said. "In fact, in many ways it's about being bored. It's good if you can find a way to be entertained by your boredom.

Nick Burd

#14. Kaiaphas. I see you finally made some friends. You must have learned to use a toothbrush at last. You know it's the whole up and down, back and forth that confuses people ... or demons. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon