#lievin

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#around #assumes #behave #believing #blind

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#because #believing #consensus #constructed #else

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#back #believing #brings #danger #earth

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #argument #believing #breathe #cannot

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be. ↗

— James A. Owen

#believe #believing-in-yourself #determination #determined #self-determination

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#believing #certain #embraces #mysteries #supreme

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#believing #car #kept #our #ourselves

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believing #everything #god #men #nothing