I Believe In Quotes - Page 26

• I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Believe, Wings, Heard

  Theodore Dreiser (2005). “A Traveler at Forty”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe in the magic and authority of words.

  Rene Char

  Believe, Magic, Authority

  "This smoke that carried us". Book by René Char, 2004.

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• I believe in love — yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love. I went out with Katy Perry last night. She's so fun and awesome, but it's cool to see someone older believe in love too. She is all about it, and that's how I will always be. I believe in stories like, 'Oh, I met him in Starbucks.'

  Selena Gomez

  Girl, Fun, Believe

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• I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Talking, Quality

  Edward Teller (1987). “Better a shield than a sword: perspectives on defense and technology”, Free Pr

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• For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Believe, Order, Canterbury

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• I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Ambition, Soul

  Edward Teller (1987). “Better a shield than a sword: perspectives on defense and technology”, Free Pr

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• I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

  Julie Andrews

  Believe, And Love, Sound

  Photoplay, September 1973.

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• I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Believe, Race, Two

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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• I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.

  William Albert Allard

  Believe, Knowing, Special

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• I believe the family is the foundation of America - and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Fighting, Law

  "Romney kicks off White House bid", edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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• America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."

  Alberto Gonzales

  Children, Military, Believe

  Remarks at his installation as Attorney General, www.justice.gov. February 14, 2005.

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• You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Team, Believe

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Believe, Freedom Of Speech

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• If I were to run for president, it's because I believe in our country.

  Bobby Jindal

  Running, Country, Believe

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. November 16, 2014.

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• When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.

  John Pilger

  Believe, Government, Use

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Needs, World

  Song: Zebulon, 2010

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• I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

  Lana Del Rey

  Kindness, War, Believe

  "Ride". Video clip, "Born to Die" album deluxe edition, www.youtube.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Believe, Feminist

  The Times, November 10, 2007.

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• I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.

  Nancy Crow

  Believe, Commitment, Care

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

  Paul Emsley

  Believe, Artist, Views

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• I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

  Ba Jin

  Believe, Writing, Comedy

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• When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.

  Homer

  Believe, House, I Believe

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• I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.

  Leona Lewis

  Strong, Dad, Believe

  Now Magazine, July 2008.

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• I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, America

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• I believe in JesusAn' what the Bible saidAn' I am fairly certainHe had himself a heavy head.He scared the lyin' peopleSo bad, they hung him deadAn' they never even listenedTo what he really said.

  Hoyt Axton

  Believe, Scared, Heavy

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