I Believe Quotes - Page 8

• I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

  James Randi

  Believe, Survival, Quality

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• I have a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record. I understand that people disagree on this issue, but I believe that it is a woman's decision, it's a difficult decision, but it's a decision between her and her physician. I will do everything that I can in 50 states of this country to make sure that women have a choice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

  Janet Napolitano

  Running, Country, Believe

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• I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

  Christopher Dodd

  Believe, Years, Would Be

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• And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Awareness, Resources

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.75, Counterpoint Press

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• Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Foundation, Hot

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• Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Compassion, Community

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• I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Beautiful, Strong, Laughter

  Leopold Stokowski (1943). “Music for all of us”

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• I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

  Keith Jarrett

  Believe, Artist, Tasks

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• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  Kapil Dev

  Running, Honesty, Believe

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• Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid with God. I don't believe in leprechauns, but I haven't dedicated my life to battling them. I suppose if I believed that people's faith in leprechauns poisoned civilization, I might get angry with members of leprechaun churches. But there's one thing I'm quite sure I wouldn't do: I would not get angry with leprechauns. Why not? Because I can't get angry with someone I know doesn't exist.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil”, p.136, Multnomah

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• There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Caring, Compassion

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• In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.

  Nelson Mandela

  Party, Believe, Tragedy

  "Mandela's Aids speech: Excerpts". news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2000.

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• I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

  Bill Engvall

  Pain, Believe, Life Sucks

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• Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

  M. R. James

  Believe, Ghost, Accepting

  M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.15, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

  Steve Martin

  Country, Believe, Native Language

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• I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God - or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch - or a reasonable facsimile.

  Chuck Lorre

  Believe, Heart, Compassion

  "'The Big Bang Theory' ('The Tangerine Factor')". Quote during Credits, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

  Bob Thaves

  Believe, Reality, Facing Reality

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• I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Jobs, Believe, Home

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• I believe in free will. I have no choice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Choices, Free Will

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• I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mistake, Believe, Able

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• The Bible says that in the last days, there will be people in our churches who are not true believers, among other things. Because of watered-down messages and compromise, people will feel comfortable in certain churches because they are never confronted with their sin. I believe my job as a pastor is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

  Greg Laurie

  Jobs, Believe, People

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• When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'

  Walter Martin

  Jesus, Believe, Eye

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• Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

  David Platt

  Believe, People, Risk

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