Believe Quotes

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

~ Wen Jiabao

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

~ Bob Woodward

I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

~ Joshua Ostrander

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

~ Tracy Letts

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

~ Jane Goodall

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

~ Nancy Reagan

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

~ Bob Marley

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

~ Saul Alinsky

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

~ Carl Hiaasen

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

~ Tupac Shakur

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

~ Sam Harris

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

~ David Blaine

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

~ Kit Williams

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

~ Will Self

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

~ Dan Aykroyd

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

~ Dasha Zhukova

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

~ Clint Eastwood

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

~ Hedy Lamarr

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

~ Pam Dawber

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

~ Olivia Thirlby

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

~ Anne Hathaway

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

~ Nicholas Kristof

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

~ Christine Pelosi

Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.

~ Betsy Devos

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

~ Paloma Faith

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

~ Sean Connery

I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.

~ Aisha Tyler

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

~ Michael Moore

Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

~ Pat Buchanan

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.

~ Cilla Black

I just believe in equality for all.

~ Ashley Wagner

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

~ Jack Canfield

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

~ Carre Otis

My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved.

~ Eleanor Holmes Norton

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

~ Betty Ford