Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

Andre Dubus

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Richard Bach

I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.

This was a nice way to start off the new year. A lot of this was driven by the fact that the Fed confirmed that end is in sight. We've held onto the belief that when the Fed ends that stock prices will go up. We'll still have rate hikes but the market is celebrating that we'll see an ending sooner than later.

The only thing worse than what consumers don't know about vintage dating is what they nonetheless believe. From the time Orson Welles intoned the famous line for Paul Masson in the 1970s: 'We will sell no wine before its time,' people have maintained the notion that when it comes to wine, older is better. Unfortunately, such a belief can lead to poor choices of wine and disappointment with a purchase.

This reinforces our belief that consumer spending will remain subdued for some time to come despite September's pick-up in retail sales.

To change who you are, change who you think you are.

Andy Kindler

I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.

Aaron Schock

Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

Anne Hathaway

I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother.

James A. Baldwin

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

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Larry Coker

Todd is a great teacher of fundamentals, and he has a strong belief in an attacking, explosive style of offense.

We are downgrading our rating on the stock due to our belief that the company's international prospects were likely weaker in 3Q than we had previously anticipated.

Pat Buchanan

The reason we believe we can do well in debates is my belief that we have a vision for this country,

Steve Ballmer

When should a company take a position on a broader social issue and when should it not? What message does the company taking a position send to its employees who have strongly-held beliefs on the opposite side of the issue?

John Chadwick

extremely strong for tech -- the best place in the economy. My belief is that everyone is working, real wages are going up and people are feeling good. Consumers spend in that environment.

Experts understand dreams from science point of view. Some believe in dreams, some don't even care. I believe in my own dreams and understand their meanings.

Mark Twain

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please

Penn Jillette

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.

Ari Fleischer

The president thinks this is a positive. The president expressed his belief that this will increase the prospects to bring peace to the region. Israel has said it will continue withdrawals. It is. The withdrawals are continuing.

Alan Curbishley

When you play the top four away, you need your goalkeeper to get 11 out of 10 and that's what Thomas did for us. He made some great saves and showed a bit of composure and gave us belief that we could pick something up here.

When you know you're going to be in heaven with your Maker one day, you think about doing what's right?not what you can get away with, ... There's no hiding from God. That belief is what kept me from falling into a corporate culture that outwardly encouraged individuals to display respect and integrity while encouraging them to compromise whenever it was expedient, rationalizing the compromise because 'everyone else does it.'

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

When you're at that moment, when you have to say, 'Yes, let's discontinue life support,' that's really challenging psychologically, no matter what your beliefs were before that moment. That's the one case that made the news, but these kinds of decisions get made every day.

Rick Carlisle

We know that right now from a personnel standpoint we're not at our best, but there's a lot you can make up for with a strong collective effort and a strong belief in one other.

Ram Dass

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

We've had a 15-year bull market. People's belief in stocks as a place to put their retirement money isn't going to die slowly. I don't think the market is going to fall away right away. But I think what it means is there is going to be pressure on (stock prices).

We've got about four more games to finish that. I really think our kids believe and if you've got the belief and you've got the confidence, you're going to finish the job. We've got a ton of talent. Hopefully we can just finish the job.

Sathya Baba

Women are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief, born out of folk-experience, that three women cannot live in unison!