When - Quotes
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
When you`re scared, [...] when life is hurting you, then you`re going to see what you`re really made of.
When my hair`s all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don`t remember my name
When my hands don`t play the strings the same way
I know you will still love me the same...
People ask me what I do in winter when there`s no baseball. I`ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he`s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you`re ahead.
We`re only getting older baby
And I`ve been thinking about it lately
Does it ever drive you crazy
Just how fast the night changes
Everything that you`ve ever dreamed of
Disappearing when you wake up
But there`s nothing to be afraid of...
My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
I`m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don`t think anyone really knows. You`ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there`s no point thinking about it.
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
It is not long in historical terms since Christian priests were burning people at the stake if they did not believe that wine turns to blood when a priest prays over it, and that the earth sits immovably at the universe`s centre, or [...] since they were whipping people and slitting their noses and ears for having sex outside marriage [...]. To this day adulterers are stoned to death in certain Muslim countries; if the priests were still on top in the once-Christian world, who can say it would be different?
Believers unhesitatingly attribute every good thing in the world to God - and then respond to bad things by saying, "God works in mysterious ways." If God`s ways are so mysterious, and we can`t begin to understand his thinking behind tsunamis and drought and pediatric cancer, then what makes you think you understand his intentions when it comes to pretty sunsets or cute puppies or helping you find the peanut butter?
I`m angry that when people run for political office in the United States, it`s considered legitimate to grill them about their employment background, their positions on legislation, their positions on social issues, the taxes they`ve paid [...]... but it`s considered invasive and intolerant to ask if they believe in talking snakes, demonic possession, magic underwear, magic crackers that turn into the flesh of their god, an Earth that was created 6,000 years ago, or a god who put himself on Earth in human form and then sacrificed himself to himself to atone for sins that other people committed and to save humanity from the punishment he himself was planning to dole out. If someone is going to make decisions about science funding, emerging medical technology, our educational system, and so on... I think it matters if they believe any of that shit, and I bloody well want to know about it.