Quotes about believer
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“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Book of Blues

Angels, Girl, Sun

“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

Love, Parting

“You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie!”

Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter

“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Variant: Memory believes before knowing remembers.

[Light in August]
Source: As I Lay Dying

Memory

“Do you believe in fairy tales?"
"What… what kind of fairy tales?"
"The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Life

“We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Nature

“I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

Memory

“…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Life, Soul, Star, Effort

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

World, Feeling, Change

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Love, Hate

“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Source: Shadow & Claw

Truth

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

Sincerity

“It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U. S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Source: Come September

Women, War

“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

Money, Way, Thinking

“I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too… they always do. Even if you can't always believe that, please don't give up. Live.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

Happiness, Sadness

“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Love, Jealousy

“Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.”

Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

"Letter from London" (18 September 2003) http://palinstravels.co.uk/static-51?topic=1752&forum=12 <br class="br">Context: Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people. Cries of “They’re evil, let’s get ‘em” or “The infidels must die” sound frightening, but they’re desperately empty of argument and understanding. They’re the rallying cries of prejudice, the call to arms of those who find it easier to hate than admit they might be not be right about everything.<br>Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

People, World, Hope, Future

“You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?"
"I believe in them all."
Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?"
Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Truth, Religion, Smile

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Way, Nature, Passion, Forgetting

“People would rather believe than know.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

People

“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Men

“I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that’s magic, then I believe in it.”

Natasha Mostert South African writer

“She always wanted to believe in things.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Love, People, Light, Heart

“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”

Peter Singer book Animal Liberation

Source: Animal Liberation

Age, Question, Thinking

“Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 16: The Coming of Winter

“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”

Scarlett Thomas book The End of Mr. Y

Source: The End of Mr. Y

“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

Hell, Hurt

“Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Love

“The real drug, I came to believe, was love.”

Joyce Maynard book Labor Day

Source: Labor Day

Love

“I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

Men

“None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Hope, Time

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

We Bereaved (1929)

Life, Pain, World

“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”

Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer

Love, Life, Change

“Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him…. When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year

God, Effort

“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”

Sam Shepard (1943–2017) American playwright and actor

Dance

“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

Ray Bradbury book The October Country

The Next in Line (1947)
Source: The October Country (1955)
Context: “Don’t these people ever get lonely?”
“They’re used to it this way.”
“Don’t they get afraid, then?”
”They have a religion for that.”
“I wish I had a religion.”
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking,” he said. “Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

Religion, Idea, Thinking

“It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”

Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

“I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Tear, Laughter

“I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Thinking

“am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Fate, Way, Soul

“I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Heart

“An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Reader’s Digest (May 1979)

“We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Personality

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Health, Reading, Weather

“I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Problem, Country

“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Source: Shadow & Claw

People, Strong

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Star, Universe, Science

“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”

Scott Turow book Ordinary Heroes

Source: Ordinary Heroes

“I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.”

Elizabeth George Speare book Calico Captive

Source: Calico Captive

Friendship, Faith, Hope, Future

“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Faith, Support

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

“I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”

Beth Gutcheon (1945) American writer

Source: More Than You Know

Feeling

“If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

People

“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

War, People, World

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”

Hanif Kureishi book The Buddha of Suburbia

Source: The Buddha of Suburbia

“I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Game

“I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

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I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotional.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

Men

“I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Let Me be a Woman

Life, Truth, Faith, Way

“This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Variant: This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me.

- Tristan Carruthers
Source: Kissed by an Angel

Love, Game