Believing Quotes

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

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.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

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.

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.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

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.

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.

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.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

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

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