Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus. – Stanley Hauerwas
I don’t necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I’ve never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ – Sara Paxton
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don’t, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. – Samuel Dash
I believe we don’t need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect. – Shirin Neshat
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality. – Siri Hustvedt
Intellectuals know how to answer the question, ‘What God do I believe in?’ not only through the question of ‘What God do I abhor?’ Intellectuals can also answer the question of ‘What flag do I wave?’ without having to answer the question of ‘What flag do I burn.’ – Yair Lapid
I don’t believe in politics. I’m an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves. – Woody Harrelson
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life – it didn’t make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. – Wellington Mara
I turned to my mom and said, ‘I’m going to be a martial arts movie star.’ She didn’t believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying. – Scott Adkins
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. – Tim Wise
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. – Sarah Vowell
Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen… or not. – Sophia Amoruso
Where are the Asian leading men? Well, we’re being kicked to the ground; we’re not being supported. We’re not considered sexy or masculine, this or that. When you start hearing something enough, you start to believe it. But our world is changing, and I think we’re starting to see that that’s not the end-all be-all. – Vincent Rodriguez III
It’s most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. – Stanley Schmidt
This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone’s talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?! – Terry Kath
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn’t believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. – Ulrich Beck
I don’t care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the president and Congress, then join my campaign. – Tim Griffin
On the ground, our operations are in India. We believe we are in a country where the growth is still to be captured, so we will remain reasonably focused in this country. – Sunil Mittal
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there’s something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think – I believe – it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component. – Vladimir Putin
I didn’t go to church, I didn’t go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods – whether or not I believe in it is another story. – Utkarsh Ambudkar
Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person. – Tim Huelskamp
I don’t believe in email. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up. – Sarah Jessica Parker
‘Pay it forward’ has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way. – Victoria Strauss