Believe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.
-- Alex Atala -
Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
-- Alex Ferguson -
You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
-- Alex Ferguson -
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
-- Alex Flinn -
When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.
-- Alex Garland -
The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself and that it's okay to do that. It's okay to be who you are.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.
-- Alex Kozinski -
You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not be cynical. But, it's hard. You go through four relationships where you're not happy and you've been cheated on, or whatever - and I'm not saying this has happened to me - but you have to still believe.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
-- Alex Trebek -
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
-- Alexander Girard -
Just take it from me," Donovan said. "Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I don't believe in that religious talk, but I know evil when I see it. He's something rotten they dragged from the bowels of the earth, something they patched together from darkness and filth. He'll be the death of us all, every single one of us here in Furnace. Only question is when." "I know one thing," I added. "The warden certainly brings out peoples dramatic sides." Zee and Donovan both laughed through their noses.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
-- Alexander Herzen -
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
-- Alexander Herzen -
I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.
-- Alexander Herzen -
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
-- Alexander Kluge -
I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.
-- Alexander Lowen -
We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.
-- Alexander Masters -
We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed. If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
-- Alexander Pope -
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
-- Alexander Pope -
When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
-- Alexander Pope -
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
-- Alexander Pope -
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it
-- Alexander Stepanov -
Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.
-- Alexander Wang -
I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell is supposed to be?" "I don't know, probably our age." "I think the beast is sweet, don't you?" "Do I have to answer that?" "Why does the crockery talk?" "Because they're really the prince's servants that the beggar woman put a spell on." Xavier frowned suddenly and looked mortified. "I can't believe I know that.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend,
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
So help me God,†I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
-- Alexandra Paul -
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you…
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?
-- Alexandre Dumas -
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
-- Alexei Navalny -
Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.
-- Alexei Navalny -
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
-- Alexey Leonov -
I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
-- Alexey Leonov -
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
-- Alexis Arguello -
I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.
-- Alexis Arguello -
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
-- Alexis Carrel -
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.
-- Alexis Carrel -
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.
-- Alexis Denisof -
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
-- Alfre Woodard -
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
-- Alfred Adler -
It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.
-- Alfred Adler -
If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief
-- Alfred Bester -
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
-- Alfred de Musset -
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
-- Alfred Nobel -
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.
-- Algernon Sidney -
We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.
-- Ali Khamenei -
I believe that connecting with other moms is so important; after all, we are all on this crazy journey together and no one understands what we're going through better than each other.
-- Ali Landry -
I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
-- Ali Larter -
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
-- Ali Smith -
To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.
-- Ali Vincent -
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
-- Alice Childress -
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
-- Alice Childress -
No really - listen. I believe in signs, and that things are meant to be, I truly do. But try and be open to anything, okay? It doesn't always have to be so hard. Sometimes falling in love just means turning around and seeing what's right in front of you.
-- Alice Clayton -
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
-- Alice Cooper -
No one really believes in equality who's on top.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.
-- Alice Englert -
I think you manifest what you believe, and when you believe that you have no choice you lose choice.
-- Alice Englert -
My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.
-- Alice Eve -
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 -
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
-- Alice Hoffman -
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
-- Alice James -
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
-- Alice Miller -
I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.
-- Alice Miller