#is

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#reason #science #skeptic #science

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ↗

— Michael Levine

#parenting

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion #religion

Look," Luke went on, "In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there." "Where's that?" "Wherever you were. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #luke-garroway #simon-lewis #city

The world was hers for the reading. ↗

— Betty Smith

#feminist #reading #world

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#woman

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#capitalism

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#classical #classical music #improvise #makes #music

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#face #fiction #her #his #man