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"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near."
"Do you believe in love after last sight?"
"I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior."
"It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see."
"You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good."
"You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way."
"The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word."
"A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves."
"The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes."
"Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press."
"Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself."
"My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ."
"When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering."
"I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
"Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect."
"It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God."
"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"
"I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them."
"He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream."
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
