Quotes with make-believe

Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 3427.

  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Clementine It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Bruce Barton It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Judith Rossner It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Frank Crane It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Robert Peel It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
    Robert Peel
    English politician and Prime Minister (1788 - 1850)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings It takes three to make a child.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Louisa May Alcott It takes two flints to make a fire.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Israel Zangwill It takes two men to make a brother.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
    Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel
    British politician and diplomat (1870 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy It takes two to make peace.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Raymond Chandler It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Brandon Routh It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Ben Zobrist It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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