Did Not Believe Quotes

#1. ("Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")

Joan Didion

#2. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Harper Lee

#3. The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing ... not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Langston Hughes

#5. When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.

Mike Turner

#6. I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

Andy Rooney

#7. Already d'Anton did not believe this. He recognized it as a disclaimer that Camille would issue from time to time in the hope of disguising the fact that he was an inveterate hell-raiser.

Hilary Mantel

#8. Lilia did not believe in miracles outside of history books, but she was beginning to believe in her own power, and that was a more frightening thing to believe in.

Kameron Hurley

#9. And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#10. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

John Green

#11. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

Ray Stannard Baker

#12. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Baltasar Gracian

#13. I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ...

Elie Wiesel

#14. He believed in mission. But . . . he did not believe in it as an intellectual imperative, or even as a professional standard. Mission . . . was an abstract notion that took meaning in concrete situations.

Tim O'Brien

#15. I cannot recall a time that I did not believe in Jesus Christ.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.

Paula Jones

#17. Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.

David G. Simons

#18. Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. Evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her

Stephen Baxter

#20. Father: Why did you not become mine God!?
God: Because you did not believe in me.

Hiromu Arakawa

#21. Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

David Hume

#22. Whoever does not believe in God will not believe in the people of God. But he who believes in the people of God will also see their holiness, even if he did not believe in it at all before.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. How could you find magic if you did not believe in it?

Anne Perry

#24. Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

Stephen Ambrose

#25. If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. SITUATION False teachers have always blemished the church. The false teachers in the Ephesian church did not believe Jesus was really human. They contradicted Scripture while appearing to be self-disciplined and morally righteous.

Max Lucado

#27. Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
All four of them believed in God.

Sara Maitland

#28. None of these visions of creation did more than serve the vanity of those holding them. As if all was made for them; for their eyes to witness, for their wonder to behold. Rint did not believe it. The past had no beginning. Something always existed before, no matter how far back one reached.

Steven Erikson

#29. And did not believe in His wondrous works. 33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#30. She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no ordinary man but the Prince of Light who was asking her to be his bride. And, she thought gloomily, what sacrifice might she have disregarded had his gaze been only for her?

Noriko Ogiwara

#31. One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it.

Joan Didion

#32. She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

Isabel Allende

#33. It is important to note that when Mary Magdalene and other women were chosen by Jesus to bring the important news to the men, the men did not believe the women. Today 2,000 years later men still don't believe women when they say "We are also chosen by Jesus to be leaders in the church.

Roy Bourgeois

#34. Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. He darted a guilty look toward his dad. "Will you - get me a bottle of spicy?"
My eyes jerked to his.
"Maybe some barbecue sauce?"
I closed my mouth before a bug flew into it. "Sure." I did not believe this. I was pimping ketchup to the son of the FIB's captain.

Kim Harrison

#36. I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

John Keats

#37. At some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty. I did not believe in Islam; I opened my eyes every morning and saw it.

G. Willow Wilson

#38. During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.

Jane Fonda

#39. ... our world did not fall because we did not believe in fairness ... our world fell because it could no longer support the enormous weight we had put upon it, in the name of fairness.

Leot Felton

#40. I did not believe in the resurrection of the body but I still believed that given the right circumstances he would come back. He who left the faint traces before he died, the Number Three pencil. O

Joan Didion

#41. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

#42. Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.

Josiah Bancroft

#43. No thank you, O Smaug the Tremendous!" he replied. "I did not come for presents. I only wished to have a look at you and see if you were truly as great as tales say. I did not believe them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#44. If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job.

Benny Hinn

#45. They talked about peace, but did not believe in its possibility.

Leo Tolstoy

#46. At bottom he did not believe the people wanted reform; they wanted a ten percent raise in wages. The public mind was a thing too big, too complicated and inert for a vision or an ideal to get at and move deeply.

Sherwood Anderson

#47. It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.

Keith Donohue

#48. I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution - but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had to be wrong or my faith was in trouble.

Ken Ham

#49. Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Monica Crowley

#50. Sydney did not believe in life after death, but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seemed to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.

Maureen F. McHugh

#51. The consensus beings that called themselves the Auditors did not believe in anything, except possibly immortality. And the way to be immortal, they knew, was to avoid living.

Terry Pratchett

#52. He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.

Leo Tolstoy

#53. It wasn't that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same noncommittal way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium. They were things that probably existed, but I had never given any occasion to really care one way or another.

William Ritter

#54. Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.

Arlene Hunt

#55. There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

Tasha Smith

#56. There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.

Benjamin Carson

#57. He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

Leo Tolstoy

#58. She did not believe in random. God does not deal in random.

Rita Leganski

#59. I'm pretty sure he did not believe in God or an afterlife, but he had to believe that there is an immortality in living so that your words and actions transform the world around you in ways that will continue to reverberate forever. No one with so much life in him can ever truly die.

Daniel Radosh

#60. There was a scientist who did not believe in gods or fairies or supernatural creatures of any sort. But she had once known an angel, and had talked to her every day.

Daryl Gregory

#61. She didn't believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.

Amy Bloom

#62. There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all ... there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns ... not even silence, just an end.

Michael Shaara

#63. Who would be an artist if they did not believe that that happens? If they did not know it happens, because they have felt the god within them use their tongue, their hands? Maybe only once, once in their lives. But once is enough. Nor

Ursula K. Le Guin

#64. Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Charles De Secondat

#65. He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe.

C.J. Cherryh

#66. She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#67. There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

Malala Yousafzai

#68. Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

Neil Gaiman

#69. Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.

Russell Hoban

#70. I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

#71. Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.

Lisa Kleypas

#72. She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.

Justin Cronin

#73. If we did not believe that truth is universal, why should so many missionaries endure these hardships? It is precisely because truth is common to all countries and all times that we call it truth. If a true doctrine were not true alike in Portugal and Japan we could not call it true.

Shusaku Endo

#74. The crucial distinction between systems ... was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could
or should
be the property of the state.

Christopher Hitchens

#75. 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

#76. The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.

Kresley Cole

#77. I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#78. I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

Oprah Winfrey

#79. I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?

David Gordon

#80. The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

Stuart Symington

#81. Mr Norrell was delighted. He did not believe that anyone had ever proposed such a piece of magic before and begged Sir Walter to convey his compliments to Lord Castlereagh as the possessor of a most original brain.

Susanna Clarke

#82. Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.

David Peace

#83. Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it.

Erika Johansen

#84. Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .

Philip Jose Farmer

#85. Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

Thomas Paine

#86. I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me ... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.

Malorie Blackman

#87. In the judgment men will not be condemned because they conscientiously believed a lie, but because they did not believe the truth, because they neglected the opportunity of learning what is truth. Notwithstanding the sophistry of Satan to the contrary, it is always disastrous to disobey God.

Ellen G. White

#88. They did not believe death was accidental - life might be, but death was deliberate.

Toni Morrison

#89. Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Richard Ernst

#90. He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form - 'English Socialism',

George Orwell

#91. But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn't happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste of an ordinary man's time.

Lily King

#92. For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

Amy Tan

#93. I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

Alexander Alekhine

#94. The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his heart, which still did not want to submit.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#95. Would pass in the street, mostly people whose existence I did not believe in,

Billy Collins

#96. They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#97. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

Walter Isaacson

#98. But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.

Michael Grunwald

#99. Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...

Donna Leon

#100. I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.

Edward Brooke