Erica Jong Quotes

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

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• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  

  Janet Frame
  • Good

• I have just got a new theory of eternity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Theory
  • Eternity
  • Got

• The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Law
  • Blind
  • Leave

• The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Education
  • Solitude

• If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

  

  Claude Cahun
  • War
  • Hate
  • Quality

• When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it is brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Home
  • Looks
  • Traveling

• Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

  

  David Willetts
  • Great
  • Speculation
  • Scruton

• An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Rest
  • Stay
  • Object

• [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Impossible
  • Boys

• I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Evil
  • Able
  • Canvas

• First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Drummer

• When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Become
  • Atheists
  • Evangelical

• There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Force
  • Atheists

• Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.

  

  Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Christians
  • Atheists
  • Disbelieve

• The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

  

  Rick Warren
  • Outside
  • Number
  • Atheists

• Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Prayer

• There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Atheists
  • Airplanes