Believe Quotes - Page 358

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.

I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.

The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.

When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.