Believing Quotes

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. 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.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

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.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.