Quotes with believes

  • Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
  • Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
  • Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
  • Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
  • The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
  • When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
  • Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
  • Man makes holy what he believes.
  • My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
  • The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
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  • George Jean Nathan An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Miller Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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  • Samuel Butler A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Abba Eban A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Lynwood L. Giacomini A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
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  • Alfred E. Wiggam A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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  • Thornton Wilder A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Herodotus A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Demosthenes A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • W. H. Auden All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Francis Thompson An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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