I Almost Believed You Quotes

#1. The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

George W. Bush

#2. Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

Charles Fort

#3. Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I thought, I have been so tired, these last two months. I have got used to that too. I have told myself it is just part of - having had what happened, happen. You do not get over something like that quickly. I had told myself that was all it was. I had almost believed it. I had believed it.

Robin McKinley

#5. I prefer my body after I've had kids to before. I like a womanly, shapely figure. I'm more secure as a woman. I know who I am.

Stephanie Seymour

#6. STEVEN PAUL JOBS felt deeply entitled almost from the start, thanks to parents who raised him to think that he was every bit as special as they believed he could be.

Brent Schlender

#7. To be so lonely
you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.

Natalie Wee

#8. So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. I don't hate you," I said, and I almost believed it.

Rosamund Hodge

#11. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, I am the boss! I am the boss!

Tina Fey

#12. She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [ ... ]

Neil Gaiman

#13. We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help, we'd have to close down.

Anne Lamott

#14. I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.

Clayton Snyder

#15. He had always believed that people create their own destiny, through hard work and perseverance almost anything could be accomplished.

Maximiliano Febles

#16. Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the talented men I have known believed they had more.

Gregory Petsko

#17. How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?

Liane Moriarty

#18. Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

George Santayana

#19. The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that the climate almost always changes for the worse, and only rarely for the better - God's punishment for sinful behavior.

Hans Von Storch

#20. The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but ... what we are meant to be.

Madeleine L'Engle

#21. Why can't I be different and unusual ... like everyone else?

Vivian Stanshall

#22. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#23. Victor," she gasped... "can't you see I've always been yours?"
He almost believed her. Almost.

Suzanne Steele

#24. To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

A. Y. Jackson

#25. It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Seth Godin

#26. Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.

Dick Morris

#27. The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.

F.C. Malby

#28. I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

Emilia Fox

#29. Do you want to tell me what happened? Why were those bikers chasing you?" Jessica's gaze bounced between us.

"They were upset I switched their tampons with Depends." Cletus sounded so serious and reasonable, I almost believed him. And I'd been there.

Penny Reid

#30. It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.

Christopher Fowler

#31. I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

Mark L. Baynard

#32. Pritkin muttered something that sounded fairly vicious. "My clothes are warded! Even if I wished to accede to your demand, it would not work on them."
"Then strip."
"I beg your pardon?" He sounded almost polite suddenly, as if he believed he couldn't possibly have heard right.

Karen Chance

#33. I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do.

Muhammad Ali

#34. I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Marvin Minsky

#35. My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.
-Alina Chase

Megan Miranda

#36. The truth of it was, Jazzy mused, that if you had at least one person who believed in you, you could tolerate almost anything.

Karen McQuestion

#37. Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

Nicholas Sparks

#38. In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Peter Sotos

#39. There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

Meir Soloveichik

#40. Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Doris Lessing