Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

Ezra Klein

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress,

Ernest Holmes

We are bound by nothing except belief.

Ernest Holmes

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

In my three years here, that was the most comprehensive of a team performance as I have ever seen my team play. From start to finish, the concentration, commitment and the belief we could come here and win was evident. I don't know what else I can say.

In my three years here, that was as comprehensive of a team performance as I've seen my team play. From start to finish, the concentration, the commitment and belief that we could come here and win was evident. . . To come into RFK and win is pretty good. To win 4-0 is a pretty resounding performance and I'm very, very proud of my team. Very proud.

If the man or woman are willing to take a look at their beliefs or their behavior, then they can change.

(Clark) called me just before the race and wished me good luck and I really hope this makes him happy because he has supported me and he saw the belief I had in myself.

Madeleine M. Kunin

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who

Jan Egeland

In terms of the human lives lost, this is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. It is beyond belief that the world is not paying more attention.

Kofi Annan

in the belief that dialogue can triumph over discord, that diversity is a universal virtue and that the peoples of the world are far more united by their common fate than they are divided by their separate identities.

George Eliot

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Chairman Greenspan's comments went further than previous Fed commentary on recognizing the degree of slowing in the economy and clearly pave the way for the Fed to switch to a neutral directive. Moreover, his comments further encourage us in our belief that the Fed will lower rates in the first quarter of next year.

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual

Friedrich Nietzsche

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

George Eliot

Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

Alfred Russel Wallace

But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.

Before the war ended common sense had rescued me from any belief that war could do the human race, or my country, any good whatever.

Georges Rouault

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.

Isabella Rossellini

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

Jack Nicholson

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

Miguel de Cervantes

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Nick Kroll

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Sebastian Junger

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

Marianne Moore

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Plato

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Plato

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Norman Cousins

Belief creates biology.