What We Believe Quotes

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.

Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

You gotta hang out with people who have big dreams and believe in that dream.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.

All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

Say it over and over until you believe it, and only then shall you become it.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God