Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Do I believe? God only knows.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • God
  • Humor

• The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • God
  • Men
  • Dark

• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • I Believe

• Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Man
  • Sun

• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

  

  Haniel Long
  • God
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I say it because I don't believe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Believe

• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God

• Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • God
  • Important
  • Color

• There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Believe
  • War

• I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Sweet

• Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

  

  Doug Henning
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wonder

• I'm a Beyonce fan, and when I'm looking at her, I'll think 'Oh my God, her life is so awesome, and she made it.'

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Life
  • God
  • She

• Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

• I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Football

• Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Men
  • Science
  • Hate

• My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' John O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Faith
  • Audience
  • Trouble

• My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

  

  Brad Stevens
  • Time
  • Game
  • Goal

• Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • God
  • Love
  • Struggle

• Do I believe? God only knows.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • God
  • Believe