Anna Sewell Quotes

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

Anna Sewell

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• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

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• I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

  

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• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

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• I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

  

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• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

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• Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

  

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• We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

  

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• What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.

  

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• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  

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• Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

  

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• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

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• Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

  

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• You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

  

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• A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same.

  

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• It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

  

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• I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

  

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• If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

  

  Vince Gilligan
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• Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
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• I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Rest
  • Religion
  • Don't Believe