I Believe Quotes
George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.
The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.
One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.
Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.
Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra
If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.
I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.
I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.
I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.
People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.
Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.
Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.
I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.
Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.
You know what I want, above all things? I want people who are aware of my music right now, to believe in change.
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.
One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.
