Unthought — The (usually unstated) presuppositions that undergird an account of secularity and the decline of religious practice.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

If youre last in your class at Harvard it doesnt feel like youre a good student even though you really are. Its not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

I guarantee you that the people who watch 'Conan O'Brien' or who watch 'Entertainment Tonight' and probably a lot of these other programs have never heard of Operation Blessing. Maybe they have heard of UNICEF, and I'm sure they have heard of the Red Cross, but they haven't heard of this organization.

The one thing little people don't like is the 'M' word, 'midget.'

What you are comes to you.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.