#eli

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. ↗

— David Brinkley

#city #filled #important #people #washington

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#believe #change #himself #i #i believe

How delightful to find a friend in everyone. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#everyone #find #friend #how

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#critic #every #history #last #literary

One of the primary reasons that men undertake the teaching of false doctrine is greed. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#faith

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#believe #ever #generation #greatest #greatest generation

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#enthusiasm #feeling #fine #flash #i

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#believed #conscience #friends #guilt #hated

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #born #crime #envy #faith

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get