“Helen: You gloss over everything with a cynical joke and no one knows what you really believe in. Daria: A-ha. So my evil plan is working.”— Glenn Eichler, Daria Morgendorffer (voice), Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
“What happened in your childhood to make you believe people are good?”— Matt Hubbard, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“I struggle to believe you.”— Billy Finnegan, Howard J. Morris, Marta Kauffman, Frankie Bergstein, Lily Tomlin, imdb.com
“I got stuck on, like, wanting you to say I was a good person, because if you believed it, then somehow I could believe it too.”— Michael Hitchcock, Rebecca Bunch, Rachel Bloom, imdb.com
“Josh: I know it's not cool to believe in God and stuff, but I do. Rebecca: Oh my God, that's like - that's insane! I believe in God too! What are the odds? Josh: I think a lot of people believe in...”— Michael Hitchcock, Josh Chan, Vincent Rodriguez III, imdb.com
“That things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.”— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.com
“I have been vehemently accused by people who didn’t understand me of not believing in anything. I don’t believe in anything. This is not a statement of existential hopelessness for which you should light a candle for me at night. It’s a strategy for not getting bogged down in some weird trip. After…”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“She believed because it was that faith alone that gave her own life any kind of meaning.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Sadly, some have gone so far as to claim it does not matter what a man believes so long as he behaves himself and attends church.”— Arthur H. Stainback, ministrymagazine.org
“You wanna know what I believe? That this isn’t the end, that there’s another world out there for both of us, that we’ll see each other again. And we’ll play and dance and bake and sing. Doesn’t that sound beautiful? Will you believe with me?”— Kyle Bradstreet, Emily Moss, Julia Crockett, imdb.com
“When I was smuggling, I learned that some men believe everything and some nothing.”— George R. R. Martin, Davos Seaworth, amazon.com
“There are metaphysical problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless. For, as I have repeatedly said, they are ‘beyond physics’ indeed and demand an act of faith. We have to accept this fact to be honest. There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the inc…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“I rely confidently on the patriotism of the people, on the dignity and self-respect of the States, on the wisdom of Congreess, and, above all, on the continued gracious favor of Almighty God to maintain against all enemies, whether at home or abroad, the sanctity of the Constitution and the integrit…”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Prayer and affirmation and other time-honored spiritual practices are the actions taken in the process of changing one's life. When embraced and mastered they can and will alter your brain and change your mind.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“No matter how many thousands of thoughts parade in your consciousness today, the power of focused intention can never be overestimated. Affirm: 'It is my intention in this moment to align my will with God’s Will.'”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined. We must think critically, and not just about the ideas…”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com