What We Believe Quotes

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.

I can't believe I'm in New Zealand, I can't wait to play. It's just so beautiful out here and so awesome.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

Writers: believe! And go do the work . . .

Believe in the importance of your art.

It's very difficult to put in the work unless you believe that what you're doing is significant in some way.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it.

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

The road back to God is not nearly so steep nor is it so difficult as some would have us believe.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

Inside every believe, there's a lie.

I can't believe I'm breathing and happy and thriving.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.