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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism, literature, literary critic, faith, poets

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about police, principle, journalism, work, people

People asked me after JFK what I believed, and I didn't care. You presume that people are on the side of their films' beliefs, but that's just not always the case.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about nation, people, contentment

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very...

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

Quote by Erykah Badu about artists, word, common sense, sense

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Quote by John Adams about destiny, nation, atheism, blind, essential, faith, man

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Quote by Aesop about lie, truth

I have always believed that all things depended upon...

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about wealth, nothing, things

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Quote by Agatha Christie about books, writing, worry, people

I realized if I was going to speak publicly as an actor, then I had a responsibility to talk not only about myself, but about things that I believed were being lied about.

Quote by Julie Christie about actors, being, things

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was...

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about poets

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring...

Quote by Laurent Fabius about technology, nation, time

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about people, voice, judges, rightness, god

You know, my family stood for something that they...

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about family, contentment

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is...

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

AQuote by Alexander Chase about opinion

Suddenly you seemed to understand everything, absolutely everything, and in the same time you do not understand anything, you lose everything, a truth in whose power you believed in it is slipping away through your fingers. RighWords Translation

Quote by Sorin Vidan about confusion, contentment, power, truth, time

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