Quotes with believe

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  • Andrew Young I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Allan Carr I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Josh Billings I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Benjamin Jowett I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).
    Letters
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Anne Tyler I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Anne Frank I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • David Gemmell I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
    Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 371
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Leo Rosten I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Walt Whitman I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Alain de Botton I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Brooke Burke I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • James Baldwin I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • George Sand I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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