Believes Quotes

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.