Quotes About Belief

I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' – VOLTAIRE, FOR AND AGAINST

Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

Best friends," she said. We pressed our hands together, a promise sealed in blood. I knew it didn't work this way, because I had studied biology at Gymnasium, but I liked the thought of Darija's blood running through my veins. It made it easier to believe I was keeping a piece of her with me.

believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.

I don't think religions are based on lies, but I don't think they're based on truths, either. I think they come about because of what people need at the time that they need them. Like the World Series player who won't take off his lucky socks, or the mother of the sick child who believes that her baby can sleep only if she's sitting by the crib – believers need, by definition, something to believe in.

But my mother also would have been the first to tell me that good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is one, I wouldn't want to have him over for dinner.

love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond

Acest roman este dedicat lui John W. Campbell, care a respins o povestire fiindc? a considerat c?-i absurd s? scrii despre femei americane care lupt? È™i mor în r?zboi, È™i lui Ben Bova, care a avut alt? p?rere.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

I was not programmed to believe that human beings – human beings in my family that I loved – could be out there killing other human beings that I loved and . . . and eating them.

When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.

literature. There has been a myth for decades, now well debunked by more than twenty studies, that a person looking away or to the side while answering a question is being deceptive.

A rule of thumb: the truth teller merely conveys, while the liar often tries to convince.

Truthful people convey, the dishonest try to convince.

God is an idea, the devil is us.

A recent survey showed that a third of all Europeans believe that only genetically engineered tomatoes contain genes. Otherwise, the fruits are "gene-free," and, presumably, "risk-free.

The media is trained to find bad news and broadcast it to you. The more they do it and you believe it, the worst the world looks. It then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You live from the new paradigm of scarcity and the media, doing its job, broadcasts it. You don't even see it happening. It feels real. You take it as reality.

no matter what is happening in your life, no matter what you think will happen, it can be another way.