Edgar Wallace Quotes
I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
Quotes to Explore
-
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
-
Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
-
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
-
Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
-
When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
-
I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
-
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
-
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
-
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
-
I believe in traditional marriage.
-
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
-
I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
-
It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
-
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
-
I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
-
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
-
We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.
-
I believe that we must always be mindful of this one thing, whatever the trials and the tests ahead. The ultimate strength of our country and our cause will lie not in powerful weapons or infinite resources or boundless wealth, but will lie in the unity of our people.
-
Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.
-
If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
-
'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.
-
Translation is at best an echo.
-
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
-
I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
