Charles Dickens Quotes
The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
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Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
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We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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I wish they would take me as I am.
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Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.
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I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
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The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.
