For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. —Grantland Rice More about this quote Tags: sports Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. —Bill Shankly More about this quote Tags: death sports seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. —Anthony Starr More about this quote Tags: sports Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. —Waiter Rant More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. —Sophy Burnham More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful. —Sir Richard Francis Burton More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Such evil deeds could religion prompt. —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. —Matthew Arnold More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. —Lucretius More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. —James Feibleman More about this quote Tags: religion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email