Believing Quotations

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn't matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn't keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love (and all other strong emotion).

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.

Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true....or being afraid it is.

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Faith came by just believing God's word and taking Him up on His word.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

One of the ways to try to improve the confirmation process is to write and tell what it's all about, believing that if the American people are aware of things, they will take action on their own. It's part of creating an awareness of what the battle is all about.

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

No one should be fooled into believing that the slight improvement relative to July indicates a change in trend. Any growth came from heavy discounting, which is not sustainable - especially as retailers' margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. The underlying position is still weak and unlikely to improve unless and until there are further cuts in interest rates.

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Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much experience. North Carolina and Georgia Tech probably have the most overall talent. Now that they're healthy, they're probably believing they can do it.

I have been through similar situations where believers will insist on believing despite the evidence no matter how strong that is.

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.

I don't doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after we've demonstrated that they can't produce results that are any better than chance they'll still go away believing in their abilities, ... It is like the mother whose son is caught shoplifting on tape. She wonders why someone would want to frame her child by producing a fake video.

I don't have to come to work, grab my pretend son, smash him up against the refrigerator and get in his face. For him to work himself up to that, where you're in that kind of moment and believing that, it must not be easy.

I don't know what to say or how to say it. We're still believing and still fighting. Hopefully, the man above will have mercy and we can get this thing turned around as quickly as possible.

If they have deceived the public into believing I did something I did not do and then went about convicting an innocent man, they should receiv no less punishment then they would impose on me,

Laziness erodes a person of his enthusiasm and energy. As a result the person loses all opportunities and finally becomes dejected and frustrated. The worst thing is that he stops believing in himself.

We're just going to go out there and play hard. We'll keep believing in our coach, our system, our program. You've just got to believe and play with your heart.

LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.

She hasn't had a surgery; we haven't changed the size of the ball; we haven't decreased the distance from the plate to the rubber. It's just been about faith and believing in what she could do.

She's just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. This year, I think she's started believing that she can.

We were conned by cunning fraudsters into believing that two people frolicking together on a poor quality film were the Princess of Wales and her former lover James Hewitt.

(Harper?s run) would have been a great thing if it was fully legal. It wasn?t, but the kids kept their heads up and they kept fighting. It?s just a matter of being consistent and pushing and believing in themselves.

Kids see it and begin believing that, 'Hey, that old broad can put in 26 miles, maybe I can make something of myself and my life,'

This was a great experience for them to interact with, and get to know, people from around the world. I'm so proud of these girls. (They've) worked to the point of believing in themselves and believing that they have the strength inside of them to accomplish anything.

I am very excited about all that's been happening. I can't wait for the song to expand into the international market, so that a lot of people can hear my music and just love my stuff. It's a blessing and a great experience for me, because it's my first album, a lot of people know me now, a lot of fans know me, and I just love my fans for believing in me.

From the time he stepped on the field, my career took off. He was already going to be a star. He helped me develop as a player and started believing in me.

From the beginning, we knew we could do this. The biggest part was believing in ourselves.

I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

We've got to talk to parents who are taking their young people to an all-night rave and seeing police uniforms and believing that because it's quoted as alcohol-free that this is a safe environment. Their young people are at risk in that environment.

What I like most about rap and hip-hop is its authenticity, and what this movie lacked was authenticity. ... I wasn't believing him as him. It's not a disaster, but it's certainly a missed opportunity.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

We've got to keep believing in us. We know that if we play our game we can be successful.

We're playing with intensity. We're playing with swagger. We're believing in the system and we're believing in the level of the guys who are on the field. We're playing for one goal, and that's to win.

We talked all week, especially last night and this morning, about believing and staying together as a team. I was very proud there was never any quit.

I have a hard time believing (police) just did it on their own.

I have a hard time believing that there are a lot of people out there who are more talented than Casey. He would be a hard guy not to hire.

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.

I have a hard time believing they didn't discuss this.

I have a hard time believing they would turn away if the project were to come in at, say $1.3 billion.

I have a hard time believing we're going to have anything done by the April school board meeting. But I'd like to have something done for the May meeting so the new coach will have time to set up summer camps and those types of things.

We made some great defensive plays when it really mattered. You work out of those situations some times and you just start believing its going to happen and tonight it did.

Hypocrisy is when you stop believing that anyone could be righteous. Does a doctor stop curing people because he was sick? Even a rag could be used to clean a dirty table.

He kept believing in his approach and kept his emotions in check.

He comes with European ideas on curbing demand and believing in Kyoto,

We made some mistakes against a very good team that capitalized on them. Now it's just a matter of getting back to basics and believing we can win.

If we are believing that part-time residents are the ones owning all these trophy homes, then we are not prepared for the reality that they are living here and voting here.

He has decided to be taken off their rolls, believing it is a mistake to continue to be affiliated.