#belief

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

Need is not quite belief. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#need #quite

The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#creating #different #each #election #embrace

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life. ↗

— Georg Solti

#born #breathes #celebration #communicate #country

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#create #disbelief #fourth #having #i

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know? ↗

— Noah Taylor

#always #belief #held #i #know

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— William Reddington Hewlett

#business #certainties #judgments #probabilities #proceeds

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded. ↗

— Donny Most

#belief #founded #had #i #i always