Quotes of: True-believer Keyword

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Gertrude Stein

How can it be for Others to Believe in you, If YOU Don't?!! Believe in yourself and Reach the stars.

Alaa Abd El-Salam

I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

Anna Kournikova

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are yo...

Lords and Ladies

You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from m...

Antonin Scalia

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course,...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent who strives to make a true friend of his or her child may well sacrifice authority, and though the parent may be comfortabl...

The Silent Blade

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

Polish

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. ...

Brave New World

You were gullible," he said. And then, "When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't eat them. But then I told you that if you ate carrots, you'd get X-ray vision. And you believed me. You believed everything I said." I did. I really ...

We'll Always Have Summer

The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who reported stories in the days before the Internet. Before it was fashionable to learn Mass Communication. A long time before being a T...

Between The Headlines

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home. I’ve...

N.K. Jemisin

Maximus: Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing. Marcus Aurelius: And what would y...

Gladiator

*And to keep her immune system strong she followed Dr. Goodhue's advice to abstain from alcohol, get plenty of fresh air and exercise, and consume a nourishing diet, low in salt. Page 144 "Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making ...

Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.

Steve Gleason

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

...the Big Red Machine was exactly that—a freaking machine.

Cincinnati Reds IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Charlotte's Web

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict