Quotations About / On: BELIEVE

  • 41.
    I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
    (George Carey (b. 1935), British ecclesiastic, Archbishop of Canterbury. Independent (London, July 15, 1992).)
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  • 42.
    I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
    (Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French novelist, critic. repr. In Violent Silence, ed. Paul Buck (1984). The Deadman, preface (1967).)
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  • 43.
    I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
    (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Quoted in Benjamin Haydon, "Table Talk," published in Correspondence and Table-Talk, vol. 2, ed. Frederic Wordsworth Haydon (1876).)
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  • 44.
    An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them....
    (Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), U.S. author, screenwriter. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), Spartacus, after hearing another slave sing (1960).)
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  • 45.
    People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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  • 46.
    Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you—that is what has shaken me.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 104, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes," section 183 (1886).)
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  • 47.
    I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.
    (Celeste Holm (b. 1919), U.S. actress and singer. As quoted in Past and Promise, part 4, by Sandra Lee Jackson (1990). Said jokingly in an interview with the author on April 3, 1986.)
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  • 48.
    I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
    (Henry Wilson (1812-1875), U.S. politician. Quoted in Leon A. Harris, The Fine Art of Political Wit, ch. 12 (1964).)
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  • 49.
    We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1, l. 128. In Hamlet's anger against Ophelia he denounces all men.)
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  • 50.
    Before my God, I might not this believe
    Without the sensible and true avouch
    Of mine own eyes.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Horatio, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1, l. 56-8. He was skeptical about the ghost until he saw it; "sensible" means perceived by, or relating to, the senses.)
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