A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
There’s a responsibility to the coaches, to the organization, to the front office, to the owners, to everybody who believes in you enough to give you what you’ve gotten, to the fans that show up every day and pay to watch you play – all those things combined. It’s not fair to take a day off.
I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.
Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she’s in a very different place in life.
An organization believes in me to where I’m worth $163 million, possibly $200 million. When you put it in that form, the responsibility hits home.
No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.
A man walks on through life – with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns ’round. The word ‘repentance’ means ‘turning ’round.’ He repents and believes and is saved.
While ‘Outlander’ is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.
Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.
Israel is grateful that America believes in us.
Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he’s going to be a priest one day.
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.
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush.
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn’t buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
I’ve never been a materialist; I’ve never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it’s gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum – left and right.
I think the ‘counterculture’ believes that there are ways to manage being the world’s most powerful country that involve creation of consensus – ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
Nobody knows why we’re alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that’s what President Obama believes.
I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
I’m a hard-working young man who believes in myself.
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
It’s important as a manager that you feel a club believes in you and your methods. Oliver Mintzlaff and Ralf Rangnick showed me this.
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.
Once you get into a real good situation, where somebody really believes in you, that’s what you can take off to a whole other level.
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it’s completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I’ve read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.
I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
I’m not a guy who believes in revenge.
The Doobie Brothers’ ‘What a Fool Believes’ makes me want to move. And I still haven’t gotten over the Macarena. Who has?
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
I play a guy who believes he’s a king. He’s the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It’s about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.
I don’t want to act like the witch trials all over New England were warranted, but when you live in a culture that believes something is real, it feels very real.
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.
But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He’s stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he’d probably go tell me to go do something.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Samsung and Apple seem to think that they’re going to provide everything. Apple believes services will drive hardware, while Google wants to own each user regardless of hardware, so you have differing philosophies.
We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We’re a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we’ve got to figure out a way to keep America safe.
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.
