Believed Quotes

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If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… — Alain de Botton
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk… — Aimee Bender
How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others! — Jane Austen
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. — Howard Zinn
But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel… — Charles Colson
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what… — Joan Didion
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the… — Joan Didion
After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is… — Umberto Eco
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. — Michel de Montaigne
Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We… — Fred Rogers
In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life… — Suzanne Collins
Jack believed in somethingâ€”he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were… — Anne Ursu
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert… — Charles Spurgeon
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark. — Elie Wiesel
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. — Alice Hoffman
So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always… — W S Merwin
I think Iâ€™ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who youâ€™re truly meant forâ€“for whom you are truly meantâ€“and the fact… — Daniel Handler
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man… — Jostein Gaarder
It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he… — Jo Nesbo

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