Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Forgiveness doesn't mean being a wimp. It doesn't mean being weak. It doesn't mean having no principles and no values. Sometimes we have to stand firm for what we believe and make really hard decisions.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.
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I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
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The especial genius of Woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
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I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.
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Something had begun to emanate from Lila’s mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves.
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
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It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.
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Forgiveness doesn't mean being a wimp. It doesn't mean being weak. It doesn't mean having no principles and no values. Sometimes we have to stand firm for what we believe and make really hard decisions.
