Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 3427.

  • Mignon McLaughlin It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Charlotte Brontë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • John Dryden It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Hyman G. Rickover It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
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  • Anthony Trollope It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Immanuel Kant It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Frank Dane It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Aristotle It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aesop It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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