Believing Quotes (page 83)

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• heart
• to live
• grief

For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole. Toni Cade Bambara

• be nice
• wellness
• pain

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders. Jodi Picoult

• heart
• believe
• believers

I believe everyone has this fuckin' poem in his heart. Bill Hicks

• personality
• personal
• believe

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die. Chuck Klosterman

• amazing
• girl
• great

We all received invitations, made by hand from construction paper, with balloons containing our names in Magic Marker. Our amazement at being formally invited to a house we had only visited in our bathroom fantasies was so great that we had to compare one another's invitations before we believed it. It was thrilling to know that the Lisbon girls knew our names, that their delicate vocal cords had pronounced their syllables, and that they meant something in their lives. They had had to labor... Jeffrey Eugenides

• believe
• new york
• new

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. Ambrose Bierce

• change
• hope
• believe

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. Jim Wallis

• time
• believe
• so much time

There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit. Don DeLillo

• hope
• evening
• soul

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul. Joyce Carol Oates

• best
• believe
• ungrateful

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• motivational
• motivation
• stupid

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything. Terry Goodkind

• exercise
• savage
• short

On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused…Nations work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe – at any rate for short periods – that running, jumping, and kicking a ball are tests of... George Orwell

• believe
• game
• science

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science. Michael Crichton

• acceptance
• end
• proposal

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde

• good people
• personality
• bad

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment. Clarence Darrow