Polly Toynbee Quotes
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.
Polly Toynbee
Quotes to Explore
I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
Waris Ahluwalia
I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.
Ellie Goulding
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.
George Clooney
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
Ernest Hemingway
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
Muhammad Ali
My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.
Hayley Hasselhoff
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Euripides
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
Blaise Pascal
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
E. O. Wilson
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.
Scott Adams
