I Used To Believe Quotes

#1. I used to believe that the world is a journey that takes you on a mystical ride across time. I don't anymore.

Girl234

#2. I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.

Francine Rivers

#3. I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.

Chila Woychik

#4. I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

A.A. Milne

#5. I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

Paul Krassner

#6. I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

Damien Hirst

#8. Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.

Joey Comeau

#9. I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.

Russell Brand

#10. I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

Halle Berry

#11. I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

Adriana Trigiani

#12. I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.

Anne Hathaway

#13. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

James Hunter

#14. I used to believe that culture was "soft," and had little bearing on our bottom line. What I believe today is that our culture has everything to do with our bottom line, now and into the future.

Vern Dosch

#15. I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.

Mark E. Smith

#16. I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Glenda Jackson

#17. I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the ... government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

Chet Huntley

#18. I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

Craig Ferguson

#19. I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

Bahman Ghobadi

#20. Sarah drops her spent handgun and grabs some crazy-looking lightweight machine gun, the kind of thing I used to believe didn't exist outside of action movies.
"You know how to use that thing?" I ask.
"They all work pretty much the same," she replies. "You just point and click.

Pittacus Lore

#21. Dreams are hard," he said. "You work toward them, struggle and sacrifice, but that doesn't always mean you will get there. I used to believe if I wanted something badly enough, I was destined to win it as long as I never gave up trying.

Elizabeth Camden

#22. I used to believe that Dad could do anything, save me from anything. But he can't, he's just a man.

Jenny Downham

#23. I try to remember that I used to believe, long before I knew about celiac, that our wildest joys came from mystery not despite it.

Heather Abel

#24. I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.

Matthew Perry

#25. I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

Brian Andreas

#26. I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

Paul Walker

#27. I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

Emraan Hashmi

#28. The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this is entirely true) that the artist is like someone carrying a mirror in which everyone can look and recognize themselves, so that the person who carries the mirror ends up being nothing.

Christian Boltanski

#29. As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.

Silver RavenWolf

#30. Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

Jodi Picoult

#31. It seems only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

Billy Collins

#32. I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

Clyde Tombaugh

#33. I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, Jason," he said. "It's what I'll forget that matters.

Amber Dermont

#34. As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Willard Wigan

#35. Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

Cormac McCarthy

#36. You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

Adam Ross

#37. I used to believe that the experiences life throws at us shape us. Now I think that it's the way we cope with what life throws our way that shapes us.

Layla Hagen

#38. I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.

Jenny Han

#39. It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.

Billy Collins

#40. My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

Lily Collins

#41. I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

Kathryn Stockett

#42. As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do.

Arthur Chu

#43. I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

Glen Duncan

#44. I shake my head at my friend. "Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn." Aibileen shakes her head. "I used to believe in em. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't.

Kathryn Stockett

#45. I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Nick Cave

#46. I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Po Bronson

#47. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God ... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

John D. Rockefeller

#48. I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

Mary J. Blige

#49. Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

Guido Van Rossum

#50. I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.

Ronald D. Moore

#51. I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

Nate Berkus

#52. I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

Bernie Sanders

#53. We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.

David Toop

#54. I believe he's got a lot of courage to write that book. If the Axis had lost the war, we'd be able to say and write anything we wanted, like we used to; we'd be one country and we'd have a fair legal system, the same one for all of us.

Philip K. Dick

#55. I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Janelle Monae

#56. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Bradley Cooper

#57. I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

Philip Johnson

#58. I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.

Luis Barragan

#59. The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder ...

Fannie Lou Hamer

#60. I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'

Rachel Platten

#61. I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like ... eternal hell.

Richard Dawkins

#62. I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.

Stanislav Grof

#63. I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

Allen West

#64. One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

Martin Seligman

#65. I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

Ray Dalio

#66. Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it's not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. (127)

Jenni Schaefer

#67. I firmly believe it is by sharing such stupid moments as these that we grow into someone other than who we used to be, and I was already feeling an inch taller.

Alan Bradley

#68. I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.

Tony Harrison

#69. I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

Sam Altman

#70. used to believe that in this world there are two kinds of people: natural worriers and naturally joyful people. I couldn't really help it that I was the worrying kind.

Francis Chan

#71. The lesson of the Funk Dog: You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten - or just a low-grad funk - seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks.

Jill Conner Browne

#72. Can't quite believe it after being so used to being musically invisible for so long. It makes me feel very warm to know that people who are the same age as I was when I wrote those songs understand them for what they were and find something in them.

Vashti Bunyan

#73. Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

Kevin Kwan

#74. At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice.
"You know, you used to be peaceful," he grumbled.
"I can't believe you were ever married." Kate said, as she cracked the can open. "What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?

Jennifer Crusie

#75. I don't enjoy going out anymore It's such a pain. It's everyone saying, 'Let's do a deal! Can I have a picture?' I'm just, like, 'These people are such losers. I can't believe I used to love doing this.

Paris Hilton

#76. The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was just a boy. We must believe in God, he told me, because if we don't we will have to believe in man, and then we will only be disappointed.

Anna Funder

#77. Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does ... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't ... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Peter Doig

#78. You're not the only one who's made mistakes. I have too. But I believe we're more than the sum of our mistakes. I didn't used to. I thought I was a piece of shit. I thought I was nothing.

Lexi Ryan

#79. When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#80. I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

Jeremy Bulloch

#81. I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

Andy Dick

#82. When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.

Bill Cosby

#83. I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

Harold Ramis

#84. I used to think there was a secret when it came to success, until I read a shit load of books and posts and realized the secret is the millionaires are getting rich off idiots like me who believe there truly is a secret.

James Jean-Pierre

#85. I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Norah Jones

#86. People who know me now can't believe I used to be shy, but in some ways I still am.

Mel Odom

#87. I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

Park Chan-wook

#88. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!

Thomm Quackenbush

#89. I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others ... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.

Luke Benward

#90. I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.

Cassandra Clare

#91. In a way I couldn't believe I'd carried a torch for her this far - I should have used it to set fire to her years ago.

Mike Gayle

#92. Everything used to seem to final, inevitable, predestined. But now, I'm starting to believe that life may have more surprises in store than I ever realized.

Jasmine Warga

#93. I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Albert Camus

#94. I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#95. Love is real and real love lasts. I used to feel sorry for people who didn't believe in it
the people who were lonely with someone else or lonely along. For awhile I was was one of the lucky ones.

C.K. Kelly Martin

#96. I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

John Sununu

#97. I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

Iris Murdoch

#98. I have three younger siblings, and used to tell them an awful lot of lies when they were growing up. The best thing about being a writer is that now I can say that my lies were all in the name of literary creativity. Unfortunately, my brothers and sister don't believe me.

Marie Rutkoski

#99. Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid. I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.

Jenny Han

#100. Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations ... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

Michel Patini