Otto Penzler Quotes
I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
Quotes to Explore
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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I believe in giving back.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.
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I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
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Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
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We are no better than the animals; in fact in a lot of ways we aren't as good.
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Hopefully, by the experience from playing the Speidel Course, they will have a better time and play better than they have before.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
