You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.