I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".
Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.
Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him.
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
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 grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.
What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.
You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.
I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count
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.
I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.
I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.
When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.
When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.
It wasn't really that hard to act when you see somebody holding a gun to your partner. It's also believing the circumstances and I believed it.
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.
When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.
The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more
* We have come this far always believing
that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise,
and THIS is why we will not fail.
A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.
The great thing about the public is that they're quite capable of believing two absolutely contrary views at the same time.
Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.
I think it all circles back to me just trusting myself as a coach and believing in what I feel is the right thing to do.
We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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