#lievin

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am. ↗

— Jacob Lusk

#artist #believing #entertained #finish #going

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. ↗

— Martin Luther

#believing #dying #every #every man #his

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

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#after #believing #could #does #down

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #believing #christianity #could #creator

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

— Pat Riley

#believing #create #deserve #people #results

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#after #believing #exhaustion #just #push