Quotes about believer

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“If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.”

“The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”

“How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.”

“I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.”

“So once you're dead there's just nothing?
Mari: Basically…
Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.”

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example…”

“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”

“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.”

“But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mind.”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

“All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

“I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.”

“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.”

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”

“Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.”

“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”

“I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.”

“Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.”

“We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.”

“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

“He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together.”

“You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes… sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.”

“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.”

“I don't believe in anything. I'm just here for the violence.”

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”

“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.”

“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”

“deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.”

“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”

“But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking toward
the sky, knowing
there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe,
by the way, that
miracles can happen.”

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”

“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

“wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg”

“Only children believe they're capable of everything.”

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”

“No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.”

“I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”

“… Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become….”

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”

“There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.”

“When people show you who they are… believe them!”

“In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.”

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If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.”

“Above all, he — and his goofball customers — believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased.”

“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”

“all that I know is that I believe in
the sound of music and the
running of a horse. all else is
squabble.”

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”

“No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response isYes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.”

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”

“Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

“I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get”

“Calvin: Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in…But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
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“Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.”

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

“I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don’t understand, I actually like you…most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)”

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.”

“As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.”

“as I said, I believe in fate. Things happen as they are meant to be. We just have to recognize our destiny.”

“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”

“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.”

“What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.”

“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

“I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.”

“Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”

“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

“If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith.”

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.”

“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”

“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”

“I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.”

“I swear on the Angel.” He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. “The hell with that.
I swear on us.”
Clary wound her fingers into the sleeve of his T-shirt. “Why us?”
“Because there isn’t anything I believe in more.”

“I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

“This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me… and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.”

“Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”

“the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe”