I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself. . . believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.
Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.
The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle. . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.
What evidence do you have that you know Jesus?
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
I was thinking. " "I see no evidence of that, Jared. " Kami said.
Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.
The best evidence of a mind is when you change it
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
If you were arrested for being kind to yourself. . would there be enough evidence to convict you?
I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.
I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.
