#lievin

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#believing #child #crucial #forever #grand

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah. ↗

— James Durbin

#called #life #my life #song #stop

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#believing #diffusion #english #far #general

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#after #believing #could #does #down

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think. ↗

— Liz Phair

#believing #i #much #other #people

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#attempt #believing #change #change the world #choose

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#believed #believing #bizarre #disoriented #dream