Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 3427.

  • Carol Gilligan It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    In a Different Voice
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • William Mathews It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Charles M. Schultz It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Jim Rohn It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Cohn It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
    Arthur Cohn
    American film producer (1927 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Ackman It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is rarely a mistake.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anatole France It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Marcel Proust It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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