Believability Quotes (page 207)

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• walking
• believe
• words

Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.''Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four. Alexander Dumas

• believe
• doctor
• believers

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself Winston Churchill

• lost
• fighting
• government

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy... John Steinbeck

• fate
• play
• hand

Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness? J. M. Coetzee

• men
• communication
• deep

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating Neil Gaiman

• being love
• exercise
• inspirational

I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a... Dean Koontz

• wisdom
• great
• death

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them. Euripides

• thinking
• people
• believe

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing. Tori Amos

• world
• hard
• sometimes

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me. Elizabeth Wurtzel

• understanding
• manly
• training

Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood. Milan Kundera

• love
• life
• believe

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me. John Mayer

• passion
• believe
• true

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken

• believe
• end
• otherness

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• church
• time
• world

...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. Flannery O'Connor

• art
• you me
• believe

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning. James Joyce