Unsystematic Variance Quotes

#1. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

Stephen R. Prothero

#2. Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.

Ilona Andrews

#3. Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#4. The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Edgar Quinet

#5. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Do you realize how important it is to be independent? To be able to take care of yourself? To not rely on someone else for your most basic needs? And to not get so damn attached to stuff that you'd rather demean yourself than live without it?

Alyson Noel

#7. I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

Mandy Moore

#8. Despite his image as a bloody tyrant, Genghis was also forward thinking. His empire had the first international postal system, invented the concept of diplomatic immunity, and even allowed women in its councils. But more importantly, the Mongols were also unprecedented in their religious tolerance.

James Rollins

#9. Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oliver Herford

#11. Do you know any gay guys?"
"Why? Are you switching teams?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe."
"Yeah, I know some gay guys. And you do, too."
"I know some gay guys?" News to me.
"Jake and Terry."
"They're not gay," I argued.
"Yeah? You better tell them to stop sleeping together, then.

Dani Alexander

#12. To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

W. H. Auden

#13. I'll give it a year. I'll go out and play these clubs and then I'll go on to college.' But after a year, I was so far in debt from trying to buy amps and guitars and everything else, that I had to do another year.

Alan Paul

#14. I know the danger. I know we may not come back, and in so doing, doom a nation. I would give my life for my nation. But I will not give the life of my sister. I will not, yet again, be parted from my own blood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#15. I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

Danny Kaye