Believing Quotes

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

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

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. 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.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

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.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.