I Quotes
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“I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.”
“I believe that all of us have a little bit of "crazy" in us, even if just a pinch. It could manifest out of extreme enthusiasm, foolish behavior or downright insanity. Aside from its legal concept, insanity or "crazy" is a personality trait, a neurotic emotional state that can surprisingly be beneficial to us in many ways--especially when it comes to creativity, increasing consciousness, as well as problem-solving. However, when your crazy outweighs your rationale, it is definitely time to seek professional help.”
“I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.”
“I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.”
“I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop it. You hear of another person's problems, automatically feel the need to salve their pain, so you make it your own. After a while, it no longer matters if the problem was yours to begin with. You absorb their pain into your body, your blood stream, your soul. It becomes yours.”
Source: Shattered Illusions
“I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.”
“I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film.”
“I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.”
“I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.”
“I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.”
Source: The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention
“I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.”
Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
“I believe that all taxes are bad.”
“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”
“I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.”
“I believe that all the churches are going to continue to grow. I think faith in America is at an all-time high. And I think as we continue to help people and to change with the time, to be relevant and practical.”
“I believe that all the euphoria about Europe has led many of us to forget that Europe is a conglomerate of different entities and countries. But if you don't love your own entity, if you don't know your roots and can no longer relate to them, you will also have problems with the rest of Europe.”
“I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness”
Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
“I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how”
Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations
“I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.”
Source: Letters of Marcel Proust
“I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.”
Source: The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume
“I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.”
“I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of the home. Until this attitude prevails I believe the position of women will be uncertain and undignified, in spite of poetic rhapsodies to the contrary.”
“I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of work is heavy and complicated then it is wrong." . . . Some writers feel that to express their ideas in simple terms is degrading. Some use complexity to disguise the paucity of their material. In fact, simplicity is a virtue and when, as here, it is both original and useful, it can represent a real advance in knowledge.”
“I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.”
“I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like whites" for the simple fact of not liking white people. It's like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.”
“I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.”
“I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
Source: Practicalities
“I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.”
“I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.”
“I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.”
“I believe that Americans are entitled. We're entitled to have a job that makes us feel like we have some dignity in our lives, that we live a life of integrity, and that we have good family relationships and our relationships with our friends and our families and our coworkers are enriching and meaningful.”
“I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.”
“I believe that Americans will buy anything so long as someone else buys one first.”
Source: The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning
“I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.”
“I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.”
“I believe that an evolutionary approach specifying the foundation of our moral sense can allow us to appreciate Hindu and Muslim cultures where women are veiled and seem to us to lead restricted lives.”
“I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.”
Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
“I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.”
Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
“I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.”
“I believe That angels breathe And that love will live on and never leave”
“I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.”
“I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.”
“I believe that another task which needs doing before we can have a good world is the development of a humanistic and transpersonal psychology of evil, one written out of compassion and love for human nature rather than out of disgust with it or out of hopelessness.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“I believe that answers your questions,” Sheriff Heath said, returning to his seat.
A brawny Italian man in the back of the room said, “No, sir, I didn’t get an answer to my question about marriage proposals.”
I jumped up before Sheriff Heath could. These reporters needed to see that I could speak for myself. “The presence or absence of suitors in the lives of the Kopp sisters has no bearing on this matter,” I told them, “and I see no men here today who would stand a chance with any one of us.”
“I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.”
“I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for example, to operate on the basis of a market economy of the kind that you describe - would be unforgivable, and I would oppose the practices of such a society as militantly as I think any reader of your publication would.”
“I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever”
“I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.”