Quotes About Belief

The amount of surprise you feel when something goes wrong is directly proportional to the amount of trust and faith you have in the code being run.

As the writings of Walton and others suggest, many evangelicals view the requirements of U.S. national security in the here-and-now and the final accomplishment of Christ's saving mission at the end of time as closely related if not indistinguishable.

But what people lie about the most are themselves, and these lies become the stories they believe and want to tell you.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing…" "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs…

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I'd rather step back and weigh my options.

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

When I speak and say I am the best in the world and have the capability to dominate everybody in my weight class, I really believe that.

I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.

My freshman year, I was 5-foot-4 and 115 pounds when I first weighed in. I remember because I was wearing ankle weights, so I was probably more like 112. But if you were to ask me then where I was going to be in four years, I still would have told you I was going to play at USC.

I know in my heart that I can compete at multiple weights.

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.