A. N. Wilson quote: "When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love."

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lu...
A. N. WILSON

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern ...
A. N. WILSON

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
A. N. WILSON

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a...
A. N. WILSON

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a f...
A. N. WILSON

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...
A. N. WILSON

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. WILSON

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. WILSON

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly str...
A. N. WILSON

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George...
A. N. WILSON

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want Preside...
A. N. WILSON

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, o...
A. N. WILSON

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes r...
A. N. WILSON

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers i...
A. N. WILSON

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. WILSON

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which...
A. N. WILSON

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very sa...
A. N. WILSON

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. WILSON

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no ...
A. N. WILSON

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for t...
A. N. WILSON

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to ...
A. N. WILSON

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculi...
A. N. WILSON

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day...
A. N. WILSON

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously ver...
A. N. WILSON

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. WILSON

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Ho...
A. N. WILSON

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as ...
A. N. WILSON

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
A. N. WILSON

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel...
A. N. WILSON

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England...
A. N. WILSON

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write t...
A. N. WILSON

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
A. N. WILSON

I wanted passionately to be a priest.
A. N. WILSON

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I s...
A. N. WILSON

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns o...
A. N. WILSON

The scribbler's life is never done.
A. N. WILSON

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
A. N. WILSON

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hop...
A. N. WILSON

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book ...
A. N. WILSON

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it ma...
A. N. WILSON

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. WILSON

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessenti...
A. N. WILSON

A busybody's work is never done.
A. N. WILSON

I had lost faith in biography.
A. N. WILSON

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so muc...
A. N. WILSON

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Hon...
A. N. WILSON

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. WILSON

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. WILSON

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
A. N. WILSON

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
A. N. WILSON

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It...
A. N. WILSON

I've got nothing very original to say myself.
A. N. WILSON

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
A. N. WILSON

Owning a program script is like owning a new born baby, all it does is eat sleep and poop. But ownin...
GANNON N/A

Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in y...
CHARLENE A. WILSON

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your p...
N SMITH

Haters don't really hate you, they hate themselves;
because you're a reflection of what they wi...
YAIRA N

What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, se...
N. KAZANTZAKIS

He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
N ROME

If I ever get a female dog, I'm gonna name it Karma, cause boy, she's a bitch.
C N

The fact of secrecy makes the public question the truthfulness of what is made public. The final res...
JACK N

I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another.
FAITH N.

You acted like you love me, I acted like I didn't. We were both liars.
FAITH N.

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.
ANNA N.

The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work oblige...
N. KAZANTZAKIS

Chameleon Is The Animal Which Change According To Surrounding, Feature Similar To Human
AX-N

It must be said here, however, that among the activities that all LTTE members, both men and women, ...
N. MALATHY

Though I did not have the statistics, just observing the number of women on the streets during peak ...
N. MALATHY

One of the outstanding features of Vanni society was the degree of integration of disabled people in...
N. MALATHY

This is an inspiring undertaking for America's chemical makers and for industries that use the produ...
JACK N

The only self-incriminating investigation that is considered valid is a plea of 'guilty as charged'....
JACK N

caring for the safety and well being of employees impacted by Katrina.
JACK N

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
JOHN N. MITCHELL

I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - mone...
N. T. WRIGHT

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern stat...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD

Death is a monster; death is horrible.
N. T. WRIGHT

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g...
N. T. WRIGHT

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we...
N. T. WRIGHT

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discip...
N. T. WRIGHT

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work,...
N. T. WRIGHT

While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'bein...
N. T. WRIGHT

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
N. T. WRIGHT

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in ou...
N. T. WRIGHT

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

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