Believed The Quotes

#1. The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?

Victor LaValle

#2. During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt a plague.

Anita Diamant

#3. I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

Howard Shore

#4. Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.

Paul Kalanithi

#5. He believed the LORD, and j he counted it to him as righteousness.

Anonymous

#6. Cleave believed the concentration of carbohydrates in the refining process did its damage in three ways.

Gary Taubes

#7. You and I believed the gospel, not because we were wiser or more righteous than anyone else but because God graciously intervened, opening our hearts to head His Word and believe.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#8. I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

John Green

#9. I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

Whitfield Diffie

#10. Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Etty Hillesum

#11. None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

Stepan Chapman

#12. The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything ... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Richard Holbrooke

#13. Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died.

Lewis Spence

#14. I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.

Rick Perry

#15. Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

Philip Yancey

#16. Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

Richard Peto

#17. I've always believed the New Left is rank.

Lester Bangs

#18. Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Charles Colson

#19. We are surrounded by disposables and left with the tired legacy of those who believed the earth to be inexhaustible. O

Megan Kimble

#20. We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

Marlena De Blasi

#21. The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection.

Gordon Korman

#22. William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make,

George Sheehan

#23. I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

W.B.Yeats

#24. She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#25. The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#26. Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Phillip Lim

#27. All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Isaac Asimov

#28. Thane had never been one of the idealists; he'd accepted Wedge Antilles's invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he'd learned the Empire was pure evil.

Claudia Gray

#29. For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

Gary Bauer

#30. I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

Two Chainz

#31. One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Mark Twain

#32. Ahead. But at his core he believed the world a lovely place. And his

Louise Penny

#33. Once, I believed that space could
have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God's
handwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

Arthur C. Clarke

#34. From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

J.K. Rowling

#35. Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

Alan Huffman

#36. I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Jim DeMint

#37. And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer.

Amy Hempel

#38. THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

Jacque Fresco

#39. When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

Daphne Oz

#40. Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

Lisa Kleypas

#41. Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them.

David James Duncan

#42. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

#43. The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

David Icke

#44. If I believed the stories I learned growing up, God made the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. I wonder if, like me, the eighth day was when he watched it all begin to unravel.

Cora Carmack

#45. Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.

William J. Mann

#46. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

Louise Penny

#47. Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Francois Rabelais

#48. I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

Shaun Hick

#49. How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

J. Vernon McGee

#50. And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

Alfre Woodard

#51. I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Peter Scott

#52. Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood

Groucho Marx

#53. Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world's problems

Sunday Adelaja

#54. Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.

Newt Gingrich

#55. She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

Betty Smith

#56. I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

Bob Ehrlich

#57. I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.

Sia Furler

#58. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.

Kurt Vonnegut

#59. My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Henry Laurens

#60. As I say so often, "Observe and wait." Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption. It is natural to make mistakes and easy to misunderstand pre-verbal children. Nevertheless, it is important to keep trying

Magda Gerber

#61. The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many.
i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

Amelia Earhart

#62. I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of the way things were
of hell and heaven, of how men act and how God acts.

Corrie Ten Boom

#63. Environment where students could develop their mental skills through hours of uninterrupted meditation. Gilbertus had chosen this inhospitable area with a specific purpose in mind. He believed the danger and isolation would help focus the

Brian Herbert

#64. I've always believed the ocean held more for me than the island.

Kelly Said

#65. I also know that Edison believed the moment between being awake and being asleep was a veil, and it was in that moment that we were most connected to our higher selves.

Jodi Picoult

#66. Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

Robert Caro

#67. A consensus slowly gathered among us. We had given up something important, we believed: the fire, the vigor, that came with a lack of ease. We had lost some of the difficulty of our lives, and we wanted it back.

Kevin Brockmeier

#68. he not honestly believed the contrary. And it is precisely on such a point that the judgment of an educated Chinaman will carry most weight. Other internal evidence is not far to seek. Thus in XIII. ss. 1, there is an unmistakable allusion to the ancient system

Sun Tzu

#69. Hutter thought, not for the first time, that she hated a lot of cops. Ugly, mean drunks who believed the worst of everyone.

Joe Hill

#70. To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln

#71. Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.

Maximus The Confessor

#72. Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Paul Samuelson

#73. I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

Jeff Zucker

#74. I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

Gail Collins

#75. Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany's most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would prevail over lesser breeds and rule the world.

Paul Ham

#76. When 'Party of Five' ended I believed we had run our course. I believed the basic ideal and premise of the show had been fulfilled.

Scott Wolf

#77. In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Constance Baker Motley

#78. I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Charles De Lint

#79. 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

#80. Lloyd-Jones believed the man who is called to preach comes under a sobering humility. He believed that this person is overwhelmed with a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness for such a high and holy task and is often hesitant to move forward to preach for fear of his own inadequacies.

Steven J. Lawson

#81. In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

Maria Semple

#82. I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

Lester Holt

#83. It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.'s inhabitants was endangered by my youth. The visit was very enjoyable, but the horror of the previous night still clung to me.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#84. Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil ... is himself.

Ivy Yuelle

#85. I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Alan Shepard

#86. My dear, just because something seems implausible doesn't make it impossible. Think about how long people believed the world was flat.

Angela Henry

#87. You were too ready to believe the worst in me. And I was too hopeful I believed the best in you.

Nessie Q.

#88. I've always believed the best measure of a product's worth is customer acceptance in the marketplace.

Paul Otellini

#89. President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Pete Hegseth

#90. Other humans believed the same way they breathed: it came natural to them. The world was filled with synagogues and churches, mosques and temples, shrines to Elron and Ogko. New faiths rose and fell like breath. They bred like flies. They died like species.

Lavie Tidhar

#91. Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a "liberal," and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image.

Upton Sinclair

#92. Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)

John Assaraf

#93. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.

Daniel Wallace

#94. After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

#95. I couldn't bring myself to ask Matka why they had taken him. She pretended that he'd gone away on business. I pretended I knew nothing. My brother and sister believed the lie. There were so many lies that we had to live with ... and secrets.

F.C. Malby

#96. She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believed. The city would soon follow her lead

Tommy McMahon

#97. That level of irony was such that it should not exist in a sane universe, but then he had never once believed the universe to be sane.

Evan Currie

#98. Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

Bobby Flay

#99. I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

James MacArthur

#100. What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.

John Sculley