I Believe Quotes (page 140)

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• him
• believe
• knowingly

its not what we don't know that gets him in trouble its what we believe that ain't so Mark Twain

• english
• believe
• words

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either! Lewis Carroll

• manly
• death
• imagination

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave. Leo Rosten

• touching
• you me
• personality

I'm just like any other person you can meet and greet on the street and like or not like. I'm not Holden or Humbert. You can really touch me! If you don't believe me, come to Aristod right now. Come hold and hump me! Brian Celio

• die
• world
• hell

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die. Dorothy L. Sayers

• believe
• world
• wellness

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. Margaret Atwood

• wise
• believe
• growing up

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. Margaret Mead

• law
• end
• true

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age. C. S. Lewis

• difficult
• believe
• game

I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods. Tom Robbins

• believe
• compassion
• manly

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man Mort Sahl

• enough
• believe
• true

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. Jodi Picoult

• lies
• believe
• party

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. Jodi Picoult

• life
• believe
• spiritual

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. Salman Rushdie

• believe
• fire
• hand

They'd never heard it that way. Went on warming their hands at an invisible fire. Oedipa, to retaliate, stopped believing in them. Thomas Pynchon

• believe
• true
• fish

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. Charles Simic