Yann Martel Quotes
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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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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A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
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Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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I think Apple is a great device company.
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I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
