Believing Quotes

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Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. — Jim Wallis
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was… — Douglas Adams
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing,… — Bo Schembechler
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation. — William Sloane Coffin
Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or… — Steve Kluger
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed… — Upton Sinclair
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair… — Sophie Kinsella
Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw… — David Sedaris
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been living on hope,… — Kevin Brooks
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke
Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing.… — Sting
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a… — D. H. Lawrence
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. — Emmanuel Levinas
Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing… — Paulo Coelho
We are accustomed to repeating the clichÃ©, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to… — Michael Chabon

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