Famous Quotes & Sayings

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

When you're at that moment, when you have to say, 'Yes, let's discontinue life support,' that's really challenging psychologically, no matter what your beliefs were before that moment. That's the one case that made the news, but these kinds of decisions get made every day.

Flea

You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.

Inga Muscio

Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

We have a greater responsibility to our beliefs than we do to the federal government.

You are buying into what other people's beliefs are without looking at ourselves.

Peter Jackson

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Mark Takano

Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.

David Silverman

Wherever that examination goes is good. Examination of your religious beliefs is always a good thing.

Prince Charles

Our beliefs and values call out for peace and not conflict.

E. B. White

Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

Respect for other religions and for their beliefs is enjoined upon Muslims,

Charles Schumer

served his country with honor, dignity and distinction for over 30 years. He was grounded in his beliefs and was a staunch defender of an independent judiciary. People of all philosophies and viewpoints greatly respected Justice Rehnquist and will miss him.

Jeanne Shaheen

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.

John Miller

As a matter of policy, the FBI does not target individuals or organizations for investigation because of any political belief. Somewhere, there has to be a crime attached. At the same time, the fact that you have ties to an organization or political beliefs does not make you immune from ending up in FBI files when you go and commit a crime.

Professionals should be able to practice their own religious beliefs without losing their jobs over it or being discriminated against.

They are determined to use government to force their religious beliefs on everyone else.

Marcia Clark

There was no opportunity for Mark Fuhrman to plant the glove and so whatever his personal beliefs may be, which we may or may not know, the truth of the matter is he could not do what they are trying to prove he did.

Everybody else says these beliefs are wrong. The tunnel vision of his mental illness compels him to do what he's done.

John Catsimatidis

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

As the largest Catholic country in the world, where people of several different beliefs live in harmony, Brazil feels sorrowful for the loss of one of the men who positively marked the course of contemporary history.

William James

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

No matter how hard we try and how strong our beliefs are there are things we can never do or THEY don't let us to do.

The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.

Justin Baldoni

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

I've only talked to my mom and she set the boundaries she expected of me, ... I am not to use my brother's name in any reference to my beliefs and I think I can do that.

These cartoons are indeed offensive to the beliefs of Muslims.

Paul Bloom

These facts are an embarrassment for those who see supernatural beliefs as a cultural anachronism, soon to be eroded by scientific discoveries and the spread of cosmopolitan values.

As I open myself to questions being posed by those from other systems, I gain perspective on how many of my beliefs are system based.

This was great way to go. They encompass the beliefs we espouse, of community involvement, relief efforts overseas, environmental stewardship and providing non-polluting forms of transportation. It's taking tons and tons of metal out of the waste stream and helping people out.

Aaron Karo

I used to put down my experiences and beliefs and e-mail them to friends ever since I was a freshman.