Francis Thompson Quotes

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Francis Thompson

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• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just

• When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Media
  • Risks

• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wishes

• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Fight
  • Name

• A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • You
  • Years
  • Atheist

• I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Want
  • Words
  • Woman

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moral

• If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

  

  John Adams
  • Hair
  • Hurt
  • Atheist

• I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Kids

• If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

  

  Eric Close
  • Music
  • Different
  • Real

• What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Proud
  • Pride

• I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Great
  • Book
  • Atheist

• People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Atheist

• 'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • People
  • Free
  • Animal

• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  

  James Buchan
  • Support
  • Atheist

• Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People
  • Bad
  • Religious

• You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Atheist
  • Deathbed
  • Cramming

• I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Football

• President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Live
  • Cute
  • Lovable

• But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

  

  George Eliot
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

  

  Francis Thompson
  • Atheist