Honore de Balzac Quotes

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• 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

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• 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

• 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

• I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.

  

  Alex Clare
  • World
  • Parents
  • Spiritual

• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Moral
  • Atheist

• The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Life
  • Time
  • America

• There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • House
  • Atheist

• My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Family
  • Father
  • Parents

• Thank God I'm an atheist.

  

  Luis Bunuel
  • God
  • Atheist

• As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Atheist

• Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Security
  • Values
  • Rudder

• The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.

  

  Seth Godin
  • School
  • Culture
  • Genius

• Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Society
  • Judge

• I can sleep ANYWHERE! I just love to sleep.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Sleep
  • Anywhere
  • Love To Sleep

• You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Everyone
  • Conscious
  • Phones

• A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Advantage
  • Atheist
  • Off-chance