#believing

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#days #different #different thing #famous #grew

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#believe #believing #cannot #help #immortality

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#believing #consist #consists #does #faithful

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think. ↗

— Liz Phair

#believing #i #much #other #people

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#attempt #believing #change #change the world #choose

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards. ↗

— Pat Riley

#believing #create #deserve #people #results

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#anything #because #believe #believing #i