Believing Quotes

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

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.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

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

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

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

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Thank you to country radio for believing in me.

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

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

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

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

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

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

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.

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

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

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

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

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.

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

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

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.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

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

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

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

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

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

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.