„She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed“
— Clarice Lispector, kniha The Hour of the Star
Zdroj: The Hour of the Star
„She believed, of course… because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.“
— Rosamunde Pilcherová, kniha The Shell Seekers
Zdroj: The Shell Seekers
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Rosamunde Pilcherová1
britská spisovateľka 1924 - 2019Podobné citáty
— Robyn Dawes American psychologist 1936 - 2010
Zdroj: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 6, “Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment” (p. 106)
„To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.“
— John Quincy Adams American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829) 1767 - 1848
Letter to William Eustis http://books.google.com/books?id=S088AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319 (22 June 1809), published in Writings of John Quincy, Adams (1914), The Macmillan company.
Varianta: All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
„Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.“
— Charles Baudelaire French poet 1821 - 1867
— Marc Acito American novelist, humorist, screenwriter 1966
Zdroj: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
— Berthe Morisot painter from France 1841 - 1895
in a letter to her sister Edma Morisot, 23 April 1869; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Camden, London 1986 / Kinston, R. I. Moyer Bell, 1989, p. 29
1860 - 1870
— E. Lockhart, kniha We Were Liars
Zdroj: We Were Liars
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
The Magnificent Defeat (1966)
„It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.“
— Daphne Kalotay American writer
Zdroj: Russian Winter
— Dallas Willard American philosopher 1935 - 2013
Zdroj: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ