Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Richard Dawkins

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Rick Moody

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

Rainn Wilson

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Sebastian Horsley

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Simone Weil

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Thomas Aquinas

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Tom Shadyac

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

William Peter Blatty

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

Alan Alda

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

Bobby Fischer

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Crispin Glover

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

C. L. R. James

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Eckhart Tolle

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Eckhart Tolle

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

F. Sionil Jose

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Gloria Steinem

In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.

Henry Williamson

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams