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believe book writing
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. Charles Caleb Colton
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
believe half literature
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
believe hallucinations scrooge
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning Charles Dickens
believe remember cry
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.
believe soul done
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
believe echoes sound
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.
believe adequate earth
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
believe long people
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills judging-yourself luck
Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Carl Icahn
skills class looks
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Billy Joe Saunders
skills mind soil
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Edward Gibbon
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. David Hockney
technique film formal
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally. Alain Resnais
technique doe precision
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. Bruno Walter
technique stage thousand
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. Bela Lugosi
technique
It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important. Cecilia Bartoli
technique captivating stills
Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. Adam Baldwin
technique spontaneity combat
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes. Bruce Lee
technique learning-new
I love learning new techniques. David Bailey
technique photographer justified
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. Ansel Adams
technique moments terrorist
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment. Donald Rumsfeld