They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
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Related I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man. JOSé RIZAL I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. Somewhere between my ambition and my... JEB STUART MAGRUDER Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they sho... LES BROWN I have never lost my faith in God. MAUREEN O'HARA I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentec... T. D. JAKES How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. What it should say to politicians in general, don't lose touch with the people you say you represent... JOE BOYLAN I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur... HARRY S TRUMAN I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot kno... FRANCIS SPUFFORD In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts. FEDOR EMELIANENKO I've lost my faith in science. BETTE DAVIS I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the doers, no... JOHN ADSHEAD My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believ... LUKE GOSS O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of
myself, and what remains is bestial... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said... JOHN ROCKER My sense is that the public has lost a sense of faith in Salt Lake County government. There is a cre... JAMES EVANS Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do. LIN DAN There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER You don't know that and I don't know that! MICHELE COSTELLO The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t... PASCAL MARCO His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec... VICKIE MCKEEHAN Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ... C. JOYBELL C. I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them.... RABINDRANATH TAGORE I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a... BROCK LESNAR I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that som... JIMMY CARTER I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in India... RAHUL GANDHI It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement. STEVEN MAGEE “No matter whatever you may lose in life but don't lose faith; It is the strongest weapon which ca... DR. MATHIVANAN VELUMANI Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my... VINCE NEIL Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe... ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and wh... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe... ADLAI E. STEVENSON My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this... BARRY LOPEZ I turned around and realized my best hitter was at the plate. That was a big risk to take. I should ... LOU TREDEAU No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters. AMANDA SEYFRIED O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir,
of myself, and what remains is be... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have people I talk to on a regular basis about what's going on in my life, what am I strugglin... BETSY HODGES I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at hear... ANNE FRANK Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm th... MARK TWAIN What limitations I may have now are a small price to pay. I welcome the limitations. My faith has br... CYNDEE WILLIAMS I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m... FRANK MCCOURT I believe in LOVE. I am sorry I couldn't believe in whomever claims is the LOVE. My feelings are mor... EPHDAN I have faith in my imperfections! DANA DELANY Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the cl... EUGENE B. SLEDGE The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of P... JEREMIAH DAY And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what f... PAUL REISER 'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into... PAUL WESLEY My record as a pro-life governor is not in dispute. I am completely pro-life, and I believe that we ... JEB BUSH Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come hom... CONN IGGULDEN I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in. BIDZINA IVANISHVILI Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of m... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in w... CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they hav... LARS VON TRIER But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. MAHATMA GANDHI Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have yo... RAY LEWIS I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap... FRANK HERBERT I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always b... LINDA CARDELLINI That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not... SONAM KAPOOR I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereaf... WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being. JOHN COLTRANE The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life... VALENTINA TERESHKOVA There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live th... GRETCHEN CARLSON Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and idea... JOHNNY HART When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature- LUCINDA RILEY My mind is killing me” — The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Life sometimes seem difficult to live and too negative. But, with Allah Almighty every difficult and... SALSABEEL The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an... T. B. JOSHUA The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In wha... DAVID MCCULLOUGH Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is ... GERMANY KENT When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave.... ANTHONY DOERR I lost my time and my life, and I almost lost my mind, too. It's not fair. They put me in jail witho... AHILAN NADARAJAH I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. VINCENT VAN GOGH If you cannot see it, you will not be it AKOSUA DARDAINE EDWARDS I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in specia... JESSE BALL The manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home and family in... LUIS GARCIA I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whe... GIANLUIGI BUFFON I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It'... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, t... YVES SAINT LAURENT I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, t... YVES SAINT-LAURENT He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and ... ALGERNON SIDNEY I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. VINCENT VAN GOGH I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ... DIANE SETTERFIELD We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. No... AANCHAL MALHOTRA There is a reason I sit up in the booth and observe. I have a lot of faith in my staff. CRAIG JOHNSTON She is a very good family woman, for the housewife, for my family for my kids. I can't believe it. I... GOLAM MAOLA I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing yo... PENN JILLETTE I have faith in fools, my friends call it self-confidence. UNKNOWN My tunnel vision work ethic is very hard to come by, I believe. I have had an unwavering faith in my... TINASHE This is my house - it is not I: Triumphant in this faith I live and die FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about re... B. F. SKINNER I believe in professionalism, less in politicians. MOSHE KAHLON [The reality was in between.] At least now I know where I stand and what my challenge is, ... Now th... CHAD PENNINGTON The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in m... HUSTON SMITH I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have... ED GILLESPIE I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him... ELIE WIESEL
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CHESTERTON As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the... G.K. CHESTERTON The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings G.K. CHESTERTON ..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d... G.K. CHESTERTON I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ... G.K. CHESTERTON To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. G.K. CHESTERTON If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ... G.K. CHESTERTON It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ... G.K. CHESTERTON On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the... G.K. CHESTERTON The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accide... G.K. CHESTERTON I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... G.K. CHESTERTON [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run... G.K. CHESTERTON That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha... G.K. CHESTERTON If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau... G.K. CHESTERTON There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha... G.K. CHESTERTON Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ... G.K. CHESTERTON If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Sy... G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed... G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No... G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ... G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu... G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ... G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode... G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," sai... G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c... G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha... G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu... G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat... G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G.K. CHESTERTON Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th... G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things... G.K. CHESTERTON The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ... G.K. CHESTERTON