Huston Smith Quotes

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

Huston Smith

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• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
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• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
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• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.

  

  Kanye West
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  • Music
  • Important

• True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Real
  • True

• That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God
  • Age
  • House

• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Moral

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• To be human means to feel inferior.

  

  Alfred Adler

• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Up
  • World
  • Stress

• Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Progress

• Che per amor venne in furore e matto,d'huom che si saggio era stimato prima.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Fool
  • Liar

• I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Night

• I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Done

• When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

  

  Jennifer Hudson

• I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • People

• The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased, is not the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ. And if he is not the God of Jesus, he does not exist.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Blood
  • Anger

• Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Honor
  • Glory
  • Abstract

• I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
  • Children
  • Causes
  • Hysteria

• I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

  

  Huston Smith
  • God
  • History
  • Civilizations