"I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you."
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"The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm."
"People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."
"You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover."
"I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century."
"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good."
"I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior."
"It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith."
"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
"Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong."
"I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly."
"I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead."
"I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined."
"Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into."
"I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used."
"Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way."
"All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves."
"Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that."
"You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things."
"I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering."