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Believability Quotes (page 159)

No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god."Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny. Terry Prachett
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny. Auberon Waugh
Norman Vincent Peale quote: "What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire,..."
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. Norman Vincent Peale
I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy. I do everything 100%--even my stupidest missteps. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on. That's the way I was as a kid. Even into adulthood, I look back at some things and go, 'I can't believe I did that.' But I can also go back and say, 'I did that, I know I'm responsible for that, and I can make amends,' and we can all laugh at it, because it's my mistake. I try not to... Sandra Bullock
"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work."- William Arthur Ward William Arthur Ward
Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in. Hans Selye
More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell Rex Stout
I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about another world that entertains you and informs you. Caleb Carr
Hermann Broch quote: "in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe..."
...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward. Hermann Broch
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole. Mitch Albom
My needs were simple. I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters I could believe in and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them. Ian Mcewan
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was..."
It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them. Sue Monk Kidd
Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore. Grown up, wounded, hurt and terrible. Pained and desperate. Mean and angry. Hungry and unable to say just what they needed. Scared, aching, they came into my bed like I could fix it. And every time I would try. I would do anything a woman wanted as long as she didn't want too much of me. As long as I could hide behind her need, I could make her believe anything. I would tell... Dorothy Allison
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God’s own heart? Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ayn Rand quote: "The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform;..."
The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe. Ayn Rand

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