Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • Jesus Christ

• Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Believe
  • Torture
  • Limit

• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Together

• Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Believe
  • Terrorism

• Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • Believe
  • Business

• I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Believe

• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • You
  • Believe In Yourself

• I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Future

• I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Said

• Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.

  

  Dana Perino
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.

  

  Daphne Oram
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Thinking

• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Boring
  • Hopefully
  • Challenging

• Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • American
  • Health
  • Quality

• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Truth

• It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Believe
  • Error
  • Hypocrite