Beliefs That Are Taken Quotes

#1. There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died. - Author: Luke Scott

#2. I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity! - Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons. - Author: Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior - don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies. - Author: Henrik Ibsen

#5. What we need are people who are capable [...] of not taking sides so that they can embrace the whole of reality. - Author: Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. 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. - Author: Inga Muscio

#7. You want some more?" Christa asked, her right eye drooping like an old lady's pantyhose. It was a sign that Christa was drunk. She said it was a form of lazy eye; I just thought it was hysterical and laughed although I tried to hide it with an inconspicuous cough. - Author: H.P. Mallory

#8. The truth for a novelist isn;t the same as the facts . . . When a writer is successful in using a story taken from experience, it is not told exactly the way it happened, but in the way that reveals, through all one's beliefs, hopes, and fear, how the event should have happened. - Author: Craig Nova

#9. To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line. - Author: Ashley Jensen

#10. Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence. - Author: Tony Blair

#11. I think I understand what you mean, about there being good in all faiths. In all gods, in all beliefs. When I think about it . . . I guess I've just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith - Author: Charlie N. Holmberg

#12. Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. - Author: Edgar Schein

#13. To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded. - Author: Antonin Scalia

#14. I've never been discriminated against, but I have witnessed discrimination. I was talking to a director and asked why one of my friends didn't get a particular part, and he specifically told me it was because she just had a baby and it was hard to see her as sexy. - Author: Tia Mowry

#15. Decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power. - Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz

#16. Discipline is for professionals.
Motivation is for amateurs. - Author: J.R. Rim

#17. I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick." - Author: Franz Drameh

#18. It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence? - Author: Raymond Smullyan

#19. God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids. - Author: Kevin Sorbo

#21. Jeff's attention is swiveling between the two of them like he's watching a game of tennis being played with a kitten's head instead of a ball. - Author: Kate Sherwood

#22. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful. - Author: Saoirse Ronan