Francis Spufford Quotes
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Quotes to Explore
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.
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I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
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I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
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The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors.
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I believe in the jury system.
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I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
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Philosophically, I don't believe in public funding for private sports.
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Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
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Behind man lies the abyss, nothingness; the Outsider knows this; it is his business to sink claws of iron into life to grasp it tighter than the indifferent bourgeois, to build, to Will, in spite of the abyss.
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Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
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You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
