What We Believe Quotes

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

I've always believed the New Left is rank.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

This idea of having back-up plans is ingrained into us to make us believe that that's the smart thing to do.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

I truly believe in the law of attraction and that we live in a multi-dimensional existence beyond the confines of ego-based thinking.

Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

And he believed because loving her meant believing. It meant trusting. And it meant life. It meant Kell Kreiger was no longer alone

See it, believe it, achieve it.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.

There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.

I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.

I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Not believing in something doesn't make it not exist.

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.