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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any...

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Quote by Franz Kafka about progress

Believing in nobody and nothing you end up believing in God.

Believing in nobody and nothing you end up believing in God.

GQuote by Gavriil Stiharul about faith, god, end, nothing, contentment

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

Quote by James Prescott Joule about power, destruction, force, police, god

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about god

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing...

Quote by Aristotel about religion, saints, gods, god

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, sun, indifference, history

For a minute they had me believing about that rocket. How...

For a minute they had me believing about that rocket. How high the moon?

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about moon

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Quote by Angelina Jolie about opinion, contentment, faith, people

By believing passionately in something that still does...

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Quote by Franz Kafka

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Quote by Thomas Paine about happiness, infidelity, faith, man

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about religion, army, mistake, haven, power

And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I...

And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I think I'd have a hard time believing that anybody does these things.

Quote by John Perkins about economy, things, time, man, life

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about good luck, bad luck, contentment

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.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about opinion, angels, hate, pain, pleasure, happiness, good, good luck, love, people

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own...

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

Quote by Martin Luther about people, things, man

When faith is ten times more powerful than anything else, ...

When faith is ten times more powerful than anything else, it remains just one thing to do, believing.

Quote by Marius Torok about faith, things

I keep on believing into heavenly power and the art`s...

I keep on believing into heavenly power and the art`s beauty: as being the real sky that we are breathing with tomorrow`s hope.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about infinite

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