Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

Audrey Tautou

I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much.

August Wilson

I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

August Wilson

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Audrey Hepburn

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

Audre Lorde

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Audre Lorde

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

Audre Lorde

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

Audre Lorde

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Audre Lorde

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

Athol Fugard

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

Arthur Rimbaud

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Arthur Rimbaud

And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Antony Hewish

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Antonis Samaras

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

Antony Beevor

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

Antony Sher

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Antony Sher

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

Antonin Artaud

I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves...

Antonin Artaud

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

Frederic Bastiat

The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are only arbitrary conventions to which I have never given my consent. In trampling these institutions underfoot, I shall have the double pleasure of satisfying my inclinations and of believing myself a hero

Frederic Bastiat

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

Robert Torricelli

We actually called our bipartisan tax cut the October plan, because we believe that there's the makings here of a grand compromise, ... Face the Nation.

Charles Kennedy

We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.

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