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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.

The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

The thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab.

These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

We're in a time when bashing is the norm - especially on social media, where everybody's online and no one interacts face-to-face. There's a quote I found yesterday - it was hilarious: "People need to chill, like literally, we're floating in space on a giant rock we can't leave. Look at the stars or something instead of being awful." You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

Women are an alien race set down among us.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)

You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.