Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shenstone

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Courtney Love

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Edgar Quinet

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Herman Wouk

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Julia Ward Howe

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Lionel Blue

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Lewis Mumford

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Matt Stone

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Naguib Mahfouz

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Dawkins

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Shirin Ebadi

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Thomas Aquinas

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Scott

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Marcel Proust

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

Mona Simpson

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

Sara Teasdale