#lie

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#anyway #artist #attempted #balancing #believe

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#believing #business #figuring #give #hard

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#firmly #i #learn #live #mistakes

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#after #because #believe #came #christian

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#element #happiness #indestructible #perfect #possibility

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#being #death #death penalty #fatal #lottery

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#before #believed #blair #bush #claimed

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ↗

— William James

#away #belief #change #differently #dissolve

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#having #least #lies #only #opportunity

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#believer #doubt #makes #mankind #something