I Quotes
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“I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.”
“I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.”
“I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.”
“I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.”
“I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.”
“I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.”
“I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.”
“I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.”
“I have always believed that what goes around comes around.”
“I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.”
“I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.”
“I have always believed that women hold this world together with their
love, passion, inspiration, hard work, vision and willingness to help
others. Yet, increased responsibility in both our personal and professional
lives – to become “superwomen” – is taking a devastating toll on
our health and happiness.”
“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.”
“I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.”
“I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.”
“I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.”
“I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.”
“I have always believed there is a comfort to be found in despair: namely, from the knowledge that, like a pendulum at its extreme, one is simply gathering momentum for the reversal, the plunge back toward a mood of possiblity. If happiness can be tempered by the knowledge that it won't last, then surely the opposite is also true.”
Source: The Study of Animal Languages
“I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men —even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.”
Source: Government, Politics, and Protest:: Essential Primary Sources
“I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.”
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
“I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.”
“I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.”
“I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.”
“I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".”
“I have always challenged myself and it's also important to learn from the rivals. Every rider has his own style, and you have to count on some elements that cannot be changed. On the contrary, the bike or the tires can change and it's important to adapt yourself. It's up to the rider to understand what he can change and how much he can adapt.”
“I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's community of women working behind the scenes. I had the opportunity from a young age to know that I could do this work.”
“I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“I have always come to life after coming to books.”
“I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.”
“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”
“I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813
“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.”
“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.”
“I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.”
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living”
Source: Before Night Falls
“I have always considered it to be a minor miracle that after the war, people in Europe's border regions were able to forget everything and, in accordance with the slogan "Never Again War," develop a program that still works today.”
“I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.”
“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.”
“I have always considered myself a person with a gypsy heart, and I
Surrender my dreams to my soul, for it's a free sprit who believes in no boundaries of region and religion.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.”
“I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.”
“I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.”
“I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.”
“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”
Source: Letters to a Young Lawyer
“I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.”
“I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.”