S.L. Ross Quotes

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there.

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.

I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

In any business, you have to evolve.

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

She's saving the world one fashion disaster at a time!

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV.

If you haven't seen me lasso, you haven't lived.

That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!

The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what’s happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto.

The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off.

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.

Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?

You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.

There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.

It's so crucial to really get a good handle on what's getting in the way of the kid completing a homework assignment. It can be so many things.

Kids are overprogrammed these days.