#cause

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #because #books #disappointing #know

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#admit #amount #any #artist #audience

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#because #claimed #common #construct #genes

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

#art #because #call #existent #false

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#forces #god #going #huge #huge numbers

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. ↗

— Morley Safer

#back #because #chose #come #done

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit. ↗

— Morley Safer

#became #because #habit #i #i think

We live because of the dreams. ↗

— Marat Safin

#dreams #live

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60. ↗

— Marat Safin

#best #could #guy #guys #i