Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.
I have a belief in myself and what I can do. I trust in what coach believes in me, what the guys in the receiving room trust that I’ll be able to do. They’re trusting me to be able to play for them and make sure that I’m executing my job.
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
You need a manager that believes in you and shows that he believes in you by playing you.
What’s the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.
The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
It’s often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It’s time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.
If I am here it is because the club believes in my job and it is my obligation to justify the quality of my job.
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 once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
With everyone taking to the Internet, the idea is that one can do what one believes in and they will find some audience for it.
I am the foremost expert on what Cory Stewart believes.
I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you’re going to be very cliche there. You know, you’ve got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he’s wrong.
That’s always been really funny to me – someone who really stridently believes that they’re right when they’re so wrong in, like, the worst way. Not only do they believe that they’re right, but they believe that everyone thinks that they’re right, and are comfortable with that.
Every team believes they are better after the transfer window.
It is Arvind Kejriwal who believes in the politics of divide and rule.
As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it’s going to pursue its program.
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I’ve always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he’s setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.
Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They’ll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that’s why we’re at number 16 or 14 or whatever.
I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
Everybody believes they can win now. That’s why there are so many upsets in the Grand Slams.
I’m half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y… It’s sometimes hard for me to get the roles I’m drawn to.
The bulk of the utility industry today believes that coal and nuclear are the only solutions we have. Nuclear is greener but has the other issues. Coal, they think, can be transformed into the so-called clean coal technologies.
‘Fine casual’ means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.
With Richard Splett, he’s like the only character on ‘Veep’ that has no angle. He’s guileless. He also believes in the power of government.
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
I was actually quite small when I was young. No one believes me now, but I have pictures at home.
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.
White communities – and I exempt poor white communities from this – have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
It doesn’t matter what you believe – and everyone believes something different – but I think there’s something to be said for fate.
The government of Odisha believes in constructive cooperation with the Centre.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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.
Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn’t care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn’t know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
I’m a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don’t think in these terms. I’m more simple than that. I’m a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.
If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.
Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls – ‘robocalls,’ as they’re known – are awful. They’re intrusive. They’re unwanted.
I am one of those who believes that God does have a plan. Whatever that plan, wherever that plan takes me, that’s what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna do it with all my heart.
I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own businesses. That’s even sexier… I just love a guy who has his own thing going on and believes in it.
Whether it’s Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.
Personally (and I believe I can speak for my sisters on this), I am against any organization or individual who believes they are superior to and/or may wish harm upon another because of race, ethnic background, religion, or sexual orientation. We also believe in the potential unification of humanity as a whole.
It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.
Hillary would be great for Israel, she would be great for the Middle East, she would be great for the world. Hillary will be excellent for those who back a two-state solution. For those who don’t believe in the two-state solution, then she would not be so great… because she believes in it.
PM Modi believes in detailed planning through extensive consultation. He is an example as a listener – no interruptions, no urgent phone calls, no distractions; he absorbs every input. He doesn’t hesitate to say he needs more inputs, another round of briefing, or more time to mull over.
Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It’s time for a governor who believes that you don’t have to buy a place in Texas’ future. It’s time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
