Top 100 Believe Them Quotes
#1. You know when everyone tells you it's painful? You should really believe them." - Valkyrie
"Oh, joy," he muttered. "I can't wait for mine. - Fletcher, about the Surge
Derek Landy
#2. We forget sometimes that parents--even uncles--have lives of their own. Worlds of their own. Sides of themselves we never see and never dream are there. Even when someone describes those lives to us, we can't believe them. We know better.
Julianna Deering
#3. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
Eddie Adams
#4. Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.
Dallas Willard
#5. I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
Naguib Mahfouz
#6. There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
George Orwell
#7. Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.
Jim Butcher
#8. The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. He understood a great many things about his parents, and he knew that many times they didn't like his understandings and many other times refused to believe them.
Stephen King
#10. As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.
Mason Cooley
#11. When someone tells you who they are, you need to believe them.
Lauren Barnholdt
#12. They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them.
James K. Morrow
#13. I promise you that it will be okay," the Duke said, her voice measured, quiet.
"You're good at that," I said. "At, like, saying crazy things in a way that makes me believe them.
John Green
#14. An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them ...
Dalton Trumbo
#15. Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so many feel themselves to be inadequate. What a joy it is to believe them into doing those things they never believed they could do and being the people they never believed they could be.
Jill Briscoe
#16. When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.
Taylor Swift
#17. Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
#18. When someone shows you who they are, you should believe them.
Maya Angelou
#19. Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody's going to believe them.
Hillary Clinton
#20. Why don't we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?
Naguib Mahfouz
#21. People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
Billy Joel
#22. Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn't believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to-no, soar through-the occasion.
Leigh Newman
#24. People are only what we believe them to be.
Gene Simmons
#25. Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
Dionne Bromfield
#26. Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.
Seth Godin
#27. Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
Petrarch
#28. The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.
Graham Joyce
#29. Anyone can life to you face, and you would believe them because you trusted them.
Marina
#30. It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.
Elizabeth Thornton
#31. I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.
Mike Huckabee
#32. If someone shows you the first time who they are, believe them.
Maya Angelou
#33. Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
John Wooden
#34. When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.
Dolly Parton
#35. We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities becomes our whole lives, and we start to believe them - even more than others do.
Mo Gawdat
#37. With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
Joyce Giraud
#38. Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
Martin Luther
#40. And that was what all the expressions felt like - masks. I didn't believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter.
Helen Oyeyemi
#41. In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#42. When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Plato
#43. They said you weren't coming back.
I didn't believe them.
I wanted to hear it from you.
David Levithan
#44. Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.
Katherine Dunn
#45. None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way [George W.] Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#46. When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
#47. It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.
Jay Parini
#48. But I also assert that most of us don't look for miracles, don't recognize them for what they really are, and don't really believe them to be of divine origin even if their miraculous nature is noticed.
Mary C. Neal
#49. [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
Kevin Spacey
#50. Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
Robert Payne
#51. Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
John Gay
#52. I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.
Tom DeLonge
#53. One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley
#54. If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.
Richard Berry
#55. After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.
Peter Kreeft
#56. I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.
Michael Rasmussen
#57. The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.
William S. Burroughs
#59. Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
George Eliot
#60. I'm a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what's right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.
Mark Lawrence
#61. I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
Frances Farmer
#62. Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!
Richard Koch
#64. It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.
RuPaul
#65. Authors tell stories with "the express intention of wanting people to believe them, at least until the book is closed.
Elizabeth Edmonson
#66. It is nothing to say lovely things to someone who expects them, needs them. The beauty is when one who does not expect them comes to believe them - that only happens when the compliments and the love behind them are sincere.
Katherine Reay
#67. Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.
Orrin Woodward
#68. You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
Gary Webb
#69. Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
Jorge Amado
#70. Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away.
Dawn Kurtagich
#71. Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#72. The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.
James MacDonald
#73. You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.
Veronica Roth
#74. Once people show me who they are? I believe them. I don't wait around for them to keep beating me down.
Alison Perry
#75. Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
Seth Godin
#76. We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.
Jodi Picoult
#77. Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.
Elena Gorokhova
#79. The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.
Jen Pollock Michel
#80. They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.
Gardner Dickinson
#81. The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth.
Robert H. Thouless
#82. his father was right about one thing, at least, when he'd said that lies could run around the world before the truth could get its boots on. And it was amazing how people wanted to believe them.
Terry Pratchett
#83. The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
John Selden
#84. After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8
Nicole Krauss
#85. People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.
Aaron Starmer
#86. I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.
Robert M. Price
#87. Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#88. Mermaids are not what humans believe them to be.
J.K. Ervin
#89. It's important to adhere to the principles of a large group of people that truly believe these principles, and if they believe them, then that's good enough for me.
Donald Trump
#90. It's definitely a difficult thing to capture and I mean, I've seen a ton of movies where I've believed the couple and I've seen a ton of movies where I have not believed them at all. Unfortunately, as an audience member, you check out if you don't believe them.
Kristen Bell
#91. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be.
Tony Dovale
#92. God's principles work whether we believe them or not.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Negative thoughts ... they're only true if you believe them.
Timothy Pina
#94. I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.
Richard Madden
#95. Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.
Jason E. Hodges
#96. So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
William Barclay
#97. I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
Antonio De Mendoza
#98. Why is it that when someone says there are billions upon billions of stars up there in that beautiful sky you believe them, but when a sign says 'wet paint' you just have to touch it?
Allie Little
#99. Oh,that's right. You're a ... what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them."
Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.
Jodi Picoult
#100. When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Muriel Spark
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