I Believe Quotes - Page 16

• I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Average

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Compassion

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• And though I am a committed Christian, I believe everyone has the right to their own religion - be you Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim, I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

  Stephen Colbert

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girlfriend, Party, Believe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Long, Majority

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• While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Destroying Me, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

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• Do I believe in Witchcraft? I'm the result of it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Believe, Results, Witchcraft

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• I believe you can joke about anything.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Believe You Can, Jokes

  Song: Rape Can Be Funny, Album: Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics

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• Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up - and gay men should stand up at least halfway.

  Joan Rivers

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.62, Penguin

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• We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Years, Two

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Believe, People

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. They way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. It is the wish of the British people and the duty of Her Majesty's Government to do everything that we can to uphold that right. That will be our hope and our endeavour, and, I believe, the resolve, of every Member of this House.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Islands, Race

  Speech in the House of Commons, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 3, 1982.

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• The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Determination, Real, War

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• I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Fun, Believe

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Believe, Responsibility

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• I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Way, Life Is

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• I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

  Laurence Olivier

  Believe, Dynamics, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Giving, Parent

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Technology, Rate Of Change

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• I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Believe

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• It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Tipping, I Believe In

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• I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Reality, Quiet Voice

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