Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian McKinty

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Brunello Cucinelli

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

Margaret Thatcher

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Marianne Williamson

If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.

Desi Arnaz

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

Peter Capaldi

When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door.

Jerry Weintraub

When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it.

Anne McLellan

We have made good on our shared resolve to deliver what I firmly believe will be a fair and lasting resolution of the Indian school legacy,

Steve Davis

We have little reason to believe that either one of our suspects sent that note or authored it,

William Kingdon Clifford

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William Kingdon Clifford

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

William Kingdon Clifford

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William Jennings Bryan

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

William Henry Harrison

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Vivek Wadhwa

You may not believe in anything called a work-life balance, but your body certainly does. You need to monitor and nurture your body.

Virat Kohli

I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Vincent Frank

We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don't believe that is being done now.

Vincent Bugliosi

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Van Jones

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

Valerie Simpson

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

Valerie Azlynn

I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.

Valeria Golino

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

Valentina Tereshkova

I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

Vanessa Williams

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

Iris Apfel

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

Sarah Palin

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.

I truly believe in the value that stories have in being able to elevate humanity and make the world a better place.

S. T. Joshi

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.