#believed

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#assurance #believed #bravery #could #current

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty. ↗

— Francis W. Newman

#any #believed #convictions #difficulty #early

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me. ↗

— Bettie Page

#fashions #good #i #kept #looked

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#am #areas #believed #close #dad

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. ↗

— John Adams

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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#bad #bad character #believed #character #go

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

— Aesop

#even #liar #speaks #truth #will

I have never believed in supernatural until I fell in love with a stranger that made me do supernatural things. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #stranger #supernatural #love

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#been #before #believed #bible #conflicts

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#because #believed #compassion #decide #equality