The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
