Belies Belief Quotes

#1. There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.

Alan Bold

#2. People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

Isabel Allende

#3. Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

Vita Sackville-West

#4. Sanity's a virginity of the mind

Steve Aylett

#5. Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.

Norman Geisler

#6. The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird

#7. One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

#8. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Criss Jami

#9. And the sea moved her back down the shore.

Ray Bradbury

#10. for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he ... all pleasures available freely (but what we attain with no effort we cannot value),

Neil Gaiman

#11. Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

Dan Simmons

#12. All of life is the exercise of risk.

William Sloane Coffin

#13. A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

Marty Rubin

#14. What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Oscar Wilde