Religious Distortion Quotes

#1. A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Tom Shales

#2. I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

Mary Higgins Clark

#3. The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

Pat Swindall

#4. Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

Ted Rall

#6. Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#7. With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero or may even be negative.

William Happer

#8. I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

James Buchanan

#9. When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

Jim Rash

#10. Don't underestimate the Canadians, I always say. They seem all nice and polite and apologetic, but when it comes right down to it, they're survivors.

Karen McQuestion

#11. I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards - when I grew up - that things seemed always to go wrong.

Agatha Christie

#12. The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Thomas F. Wilson

#13. Verdi was a genius. Sometimes in his operas, the strings in the orchestra, particularly the cellos, play in such a way that it is as if you are hearing the very heartbeat of Verdi.

Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

#14. Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.

Teresa Lo

#15. The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson