I Believe Quotes - Page 34

• I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, People, Goal

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Opposites, Perfect

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• Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night.
  I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
  If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
  I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
  My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
  Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Beautiful

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• Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Art Is

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• I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.

  Louis Agassiz

  Country, Believe, Wine

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• I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Believe, Passing Away

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.145, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Love You, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet M. Todd (2003). “The collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft”

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• I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

  Vladimir Ashkenazy

  Believe, Glasses, Window

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• I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, I Believe In

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

  George Washington

  Believe, Creating, Foundation

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1793). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.

  Will Smith

  Believe, College, Needs

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• I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that`s a great investment.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Believe, Thinking, Payroll Tax

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, People, Able

  "Doing Good With Debby Ryan". Interview with Devin Alessio, www.seventeen.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I believe everyone should have the freedom to represent what they believe-in in their own way.

  Nia Long

  Believe, Should Have, Way

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I read the bible often, not just to prepare for "Noah". I believe it is a very important book.

  Russell Crowe

  Believe, Book, Important

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• I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Believe, Way

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I believe that marriage has a spiritual foundation because only a man and a woman can create life, which is a gift from God. So, while I believe that government should bestow benefits equally, I also believe that government must respect those - like myself - who believe that marriage has a religious foundation.

  Carly Fiorina

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Suffering, Should

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I believe in things that have proof.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Believe, Proof, I Believe In

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Thinking, Confusion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

  Kola Boof

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I am lucky enough to be married to someone who I believe in totally and who believes in me totally.

  Sebastian Roche

  Believe, Lucky, Married

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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