Penn Jillette
- on religion
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
Carl Sagan
- Atheism
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
Thomas Paine
- The bible
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Melanie Martinez
- Teddy Bear
Stitched you up, put you together, with cotton and feathers. Gave you love, put my heart inside you, oh what could I do? When you started talking in your sleep, saying things you'd do to me, I didn't care. I wasn't scared. Now I'm finding knives under the sheets, crumbled photographs of me, I'm in despair, should I be scared? Teddy bear, you were my teddy bear. You were comforting and quiet, how did love become so violent. Everything was so sweet until you tried to kill me.
President Russell M. Nelson
- Because the evil one is ever at work
Because the evil one is ever at work, our vigilance cannot be relaxed, not even for a moment. A small and seemingly innocent invitation can turn into a tall temptation which can lead to tragic transgression. Night and day, at home or away, we must shun sin and hold fast that which is good.
Erwin Smith
- Erwin's last conversation with Levi
Everything I have done, I did thinking that this day would come. That someday... I would be able to check my answers. There were so many times that I thought it would be easier to just die. But then... the dream I shared with my father would flash through my head. And now... those answers are close enough to reach out and grab.
damon salvatore
- I just have to say it once
I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that... I can't be selfish with you... Why you can't know this. I don't deserve you... But my brother does. God, I wish you didn't have to forget this. But, you do.
meredith grey
- the body
The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what we can control. After the storm, after the rush, after the heat of the moment has passed, we can cool off and clean up the messes we made. We can try to let go of what was.
The Daily Stoic
To a Stoic, we're only harmed when our character is affected. We're only harmed when we let go of what we believe in or when we drop our own standards. It might not be desirable to lose money or a friend, to fail at something or to be criticised, but how does that make us unfortunate? We haven't been deprived of our ability to respond. Our character remains intact.
The School of Life
- I'm not my body
We might consider our appearance as a banal and ridiculous actor to whom a malevolent casting agent had mysteriously decided to shackle us - and to whom we owe no particular favours or loyalty. We might think of our body as a taxi the universe has rudely shoved us into, not a vehicle we have carefully had the opportunity to choose - and to deserve. Out of such insubordination can come a liberating lightness.
Slavoj Žižek
- typing
In our daily lives, we pretend to desire things which we do not really desire. So that ultimately the worst thing that can happen is for us to get what we officially desire.
Yeshka
- Naming a fungus a sponge
In taxonomy, the name Spongiforma squarepantsii is not actually a species of sponge. It is the name of a fungus. The naming rules say that new names just have to sound Latin, not actually BE Latin. What is the point in coming up with a Latin sounding name of Sponge Bob Square Pants, if it isn't even for a species of sponge?
What is an Insider Threat?
- Insider Threat
A malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization's security practices, data, and computer systems.
Mark Twain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Oh, it was no use to waste sense on her. Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
Mark Twain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
I felt persuaded that this woman must have been misrepresented, lied about. She trilled along, and trilled along, and presently a handsome young page, clothed like the rainbow, and as easy and undulatory of movement as a wave, came with something on a golden salver, and, kneeling to present it to her, overdid his graces and lost his balance, and so fell lightly against her knee. She slipped a dirk into him in as matter-of-course a way as another person would have harpooned a rat!
Mark Twain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Hawkeye
- Age of Ultron
Okay, look. The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense. But I'm going back out there because it's my job. Okay? And I can't do my job and babysit. It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight, and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good. I'll send your brother to come find you. But if you step out that door, you are an Avenger.
Bo Burnham
How we feelin' out there tonight? Hahaha, yeah, I am not feeling good. Wake up at 11:30, feelin' like a bag of shit. Oh no! All my clothes are dirty, so I'm smelling like a bag of shit. Go to pour my coffee, and I miss my cup OMG, that is just my luck Look in the mirror, say, "What's up, you useless fuck?"
Narrator
- Sweet Tooth Introduction
This is a story. A story of a very special boy, who found himself at the end of the world. But our story doesn't begin here. We have to go back, before the Great Crumble. Because it's also the story of a doctor who was happy living a normal life. But there was nothing normal about the Sick. And life would never be normal again.
Adam Neely
- How to Play Music in 9/8
The more that we understand, the more that we can connect and the more that we can get out of music and cultures that we previously were unfamiliar with. Ignorance is not just not knowing things. It's also the inability to connect with people, and that can lead to ugliness.
