#belief

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#cynicism #luck #worst

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage. ↗

— Ed Case

#etc #marriage #moral #my own #oppose

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#belief #cheerful #good #make #plus

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#beliefs #how #i #people #shift

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#expresses #faith #feelings #functions #harmony

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#art #banality #because #belief #common

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#did #during #fact #few #him

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#belief #calmness #experiment #meet #opponent

Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can’t explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. “And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end?” I shrugged. “You see?” He leaned back. He smiled. “When you come to the end, that’s where God begins. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#god #faith

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs. ↗

— Charley Pride

#business #enforcing #many #organizations #religious