Ian Barbour Quotes

Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

Ian Barbour

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• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Driving
  • Gun
  • Season

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Work
  • United States

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Light

• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Free
  • Faith

• Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Courage

• Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.

  

  Elaine Irwin
  • Kids
  • Sweet
  • Fake

• When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Home

• My life is an open book.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Life
  • Book

• I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People

• Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.

  

  James Meredith
  • Law
  • Practice

• Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Book
  • Friend

• I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Things
  • Ignored

• I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

  

  Derek Hough
  • Up

• Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Up
  • God
  • Song

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

  

  Ian Barbour
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Illusions