faith

"I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it."

"No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other."

"There is no magic when one no longer believes."

"Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult."

"Since the 1980's, we have been concerned about acceptable risk, but I believe that we have now entered the era of acceptable uncertainty."

"Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay."

"A trustworthy person does not betray you, but you consider the betrayer to be trustworthy."

"If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere."

"A believer is as the two pans of a scale, that whenever his faith increases his afflictions increase."

"The recent trend of the Bengali film industry is to remake South Indian films. My film had a mockery about that since I don’t believe in remakes. I won’t make a film which is a copy of something. I am…"

"It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one."

"This book lays out the main lines of evidence for evolution. For those who oppose Darwinism purely as a matter of faith, no amount of evidence will do—theirs is a belief not based on reason."

"I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools."

"Our young people are faced by a series of different groups which believe different things and advocate different practices, and to each of which some trusted friend or relative may belong. So a girl's…"

"Believe me I bleed on the vinyl and CD"

"I have that confidence in the common sense, I will say the common spirit of our countrymen, that I believe they will not long endure this huckstering tyranny of the Treasury Bench—these political pedl…"

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

"I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep."

"Give me such evidence as would justify me in believing in anything else and I will believe that. Why should I not? It is not half so wonderful as the conservation of force, or the indestructibility of…"

"Terrorists bow to the spontaneity of the passionate indignation of intellectuals, who lack the ability or opportunity to connect the revolutionary struggle and the working-class movement into an integ…"