Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eike Batista

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

Eileen collins

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

Ehud Olmert

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

Ehud Olmert

Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

Ehud Olmert

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

Ehud Olmert

For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

Edvard Munch

It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

Edvard Munch

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Edsger Dijkstra

Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

Eduardo Galeano

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

Eduardo Galeano

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

Edward Abbey

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

Edward Abbey

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

Edward Abbey

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Edward Abbey

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Edward Abbey

The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

Edward Abbey

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Edward Abbey

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

Auberon Waugh

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

Atom Egoyan

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

Atom Egoyan

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Aristotle

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Aristotle

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Aristotle

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Aristotle

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

Aristotle

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

Aristotle

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Aristotle

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Ben Huh

There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' - and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.

Ben Hogan

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.