Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 2561 till 2580 of 3427.

  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Bruno Dumont The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
    Once Around the Sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Seng-Ts'an The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Brian Tracy The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Hahnemann The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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  • James Baldwin The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Adam Arkin The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Peter Ustinov The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Bertrand Russell The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Huey Newton The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • George Eliot The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Blaise Pascal The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bobby Flay The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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