#eli

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#broader #countries #european #european countries #expression

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#believe #decide #elected #founding #freely

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#believe #biologist #came #could #down

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#artists #believe #concerning #either #exchanging

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#believed #drink #man #taken #them

I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#believe #craziness #get #go #good

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#brave #brave men #deserve #fighting #men