Believe Quotes - Page 40

• Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.

  Sue Wicks

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

  Sue Wicks

  Women, Growth, Rooms

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• There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

  Paul Orfalea

  Enemy, Needs, Good Times

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• With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.

  Paul Orfalea

  Eye, Add, Ears

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• It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Prayer, Giving, Mirages

  J. M. G. Le Clézio (1993). “The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

  Al Goldstein

  Use, Pay, Firsts

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• Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.

  Alan Brennert

  Thinking, America, Together

  Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.430, Macmillan

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• I brought killer intensity to my workouts… It’s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to it… What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.

  Lynn Jennings

  Workout, Want, Killers

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• Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

  Eric Greitens

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Today

  Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Textbooks, Don't Believe

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• I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Guilty, Shows, Remorse

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• I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

  Paul Rudnick

  Snacks, Canyons, Grand Canyon

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

  Jesse Ball

  Trying, Doe, Discovering

  Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.183, Vintage

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• There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

  Sterling W Sill

  Care, Serious, One Thing

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• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Thinking, Growth, Trying

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• Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Mean, Knowing, Speak The Truth

  William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”

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• No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Simplicity, Mind, Obscurity

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  House, Heaven, Balance

  Letter to a friend in July 1981. "In Memoriam R. W. van Bemmelen," Geologie en Mijnbouw, Volume 63, No. 1, 1984.

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• You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.

  Iris Apfel

  Spring, Thinking, Age

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• People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects themselves are sacred, not just the stories they tell. We believe that books possess the power to transubstantiate, to turn darkness into light, to make being out of nothingness.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Light, People

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• If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Giving, Madness, Ifs

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Insanity, Insane, Satan

  Edwin Louis Cole (1992). “On becoming a--real man”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Edwin Louis Cole (2001). “Treasure: uncovering patterns and principles that create prosperity”

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• I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit.

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, Real, Blow

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• It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Insanity, Useless

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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