Quotes with believe

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1049.

  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • David Hare The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Billy Wilder The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Anita Desai The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Mary McCarthy The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • John F. Kennedy The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Pierre Charron The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • Margaret Fuller The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Ann Macbeth The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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