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I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
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
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.
I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.
I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.
You have to believe in yourself. And you have to, down deep within the bottom of your soul, feel that you can do the job that you've set out to do.
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form
President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.
While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.
Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)
...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.
I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.
I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.
I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.