People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
Believe Quotes: Encouragement for Your Journey - page 39
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
Larry Flynt
I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.
Michael Ealy
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel Washington
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Mark Victor Hansen
I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
Jami Attenberg
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
Edward Victor Appleton
You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.
Rodney Dangerfield
I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.
Simon Van Booy
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
Robert Vaughn
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
Akhenaton
I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
Lance Bass
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.
Vincent Bugliosi
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one.
Jim Trelease
