Believe Quotes - page 6

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? (Quentin Crisp)
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself. View quote
Winona Ryder
There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe. View quote
Gordon Brown
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. View quote
Gregory Peck
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. View quote
James Madison
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? (John Lennon)
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. View quote
John Lennon
If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt? View quote
Doug Stanhope
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. View quote
George Soros
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. View quote
Dorothy Day
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. View quote
George F. Kennan
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. View quote
Gore Vidal
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. (T. E. Lawrence)
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. View quote
W. H. Auden
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. View quote
Margaret Mead
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. View quote
Lionel Trilling