David Bentley Quotes

It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.

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• Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Love
  • Relate

• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Creative

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Black
  • Party
  • Taken

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Day

• I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • World
  • Travel
  • Husband

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Find someone within the company who is on another team but is at a similar level or role as you to be a friend, a sounding board, and a place to go for candid feedback. Find a mentor within the company who resembles the leader you'd like to grow to be.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Team
  • Friend
  • Mentor

• Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

  

  David Niven
  • Done
  • War
  • Humanity

• I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • People
  • Life
  • Sick

• I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.

  

  Louis Garrel
  • Control

• Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • History
  • Musical
  • Georgia

• To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Better
  • To Do

• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Freedom
  • Equality
  • France

• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Home
  • Aspect
  • Thornfield Hall

• It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.

  

  David Bentley
  • Reason
  • Imagine
  • Garden