All Quotes

I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.
‐‐ Tony Judt

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
‐‐ Alphonso Jackson

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
‐‐ Rupert Friend

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
‐‐ Shel Silverstein

I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
‐‐ Tina Turner

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.
‐‐ Katrina Kaif

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
‐‐ Bill Gates

I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.
‐‐ John Varvatos

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
‐‐ Molly Ivins

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.
‐‐ Rebecca Wells

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
‐‐ Janelle Monae

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
‐‐ Robert Fulghum

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
‐‐ Laurence Olivier

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
‐‐ Claire Messud

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.
‐‐ John Irving

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.
‐‐ Mario Monti

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
‐‐ David Cameron

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.
‐‐ Frank B. Kellogg

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
‐‐ John Wycliffe

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
‐‐ Rand Paul

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.
‐‐ Peter Singer

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
‐‐ Pat Buckley

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.
‐‐ Lloyd Kaufman

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

I believe that international support through critical funds, together with the determination of my compatriots, Malawi can be a model country for meeting global health targets and get on with the business of African-driven global economic growth.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
‐‐ Jay Weatherill

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

I believe that Israel is much stronger than many of its leaders.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
‐‐ Park Geun-hye