Best believe & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.”

Believe Humans I Believe Wish Human Beings Celebrate

Author:Kathy Najimy

“Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.”

Firsts Believe Important Film Wish Pride Cop Happy Endings Fulfilment

Author:Joe Wright

“Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.”

World Believe Kind Made Would Be Lost Fun Wish Gun Horse Riding Make Believe

Author:Ricky Schroder

“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”

“To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.”

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.”

Believe Wish Virtue Fewer

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.”

Ifs Believe Persons Stills Matter Wish Secret Circumstances Concerned Regard Scandal Secrecy

Author:Leigh Hunt

“With how much ease believe we what we wish!”

Believe Belief Wish Ease

Book:Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy

Source: Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy

“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Wish Goodness Be Good

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.”

Ifs Believe Dream I Believe Wish Waiting Sides Dark Translate Transport Dark Side Signposts

Author:Gail Godwin

“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”

People Trying Believe Art Age Wish Middle Fancy Spells Middle Ages

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.”

Believe Government Age Lying Individual I Believe Wish Sex Clear Color Integrity Concern Dignity Essence Add Welfare Creeds Innate Decency Ancestry Government Lies

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

Knows Believe Wish Reader Notion Obvious Foolish

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?”

People Knows Men Believe Dream Mother Wish Crime Son Blame Convinced Atrocities

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.”

Ifs Believe Looks Has Beens Wish Memories

Book:Astrid and Veronika

Source: Astrid and Veronika

“There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!”

People Believe Wish Lucky Creatures

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”

Should Believe Wanted Used Belief Wish Doubt Opposites Errors Vagueness

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Spirits...Ghosts...Angels...whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.”

Way Believe Seems Remember Spirit Wish Opinion Reader Angel Proof Ghost I've Learned

Author:Lucinda Riley

“An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.”

Thinking Writing Mind Believe Kind Book Whole Stories Fall Next Wish My Own Written Unique Add Falling In Love Closest Illustrators Illustrating

Author:Maurice Sendak

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