Best Us Believe Sayings
98 Us Believe quotes by 88 unique authors
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at…
— Cesare Pavese
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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at…
— George Saunders
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements…
— A. N. Wilson
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Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that…
— Margaret Heffernan
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May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be…
— Jacques Derrida
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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us…
— E. M. Forster
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All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her…
— Toni Morrison
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We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the…
— George Saunders
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The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well
— Lauren Oliver
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do…
— Truman Capote
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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an…
— Thomas Hardy
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In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think.…
— John Green
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My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that…
— Barbara Corcoran
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Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that.…
— Liza Minnelli
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not…
— Susana Martinez
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Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
— Clint Eastwood
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