#lie

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

— Mason Cooley

#critic #every #history #last #literary

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

— Tom Brokaw

#believe #ever #generation #greatest #greatest generation

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

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

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#divided #elite #i #many #think

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#being #believe #better #business #front

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#coach #day #every #every day #eyes

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#go #had #juliet #macbeth #never

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it. ↗

— James Broughton

#absolute necessity #allowing #earliest #happen #invade