Top 100 Quotes About Believed
#1. In Lincoln's mind, at least as Lamon interpreted the story, "the illusion was a sign." Both the president-elect and his wife believed it meant he would not only survive his term in office, but four years later win reelection to a second one, only to die before it ended.
Harold Holzer
#2. There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.
Husam Wafaei
#3. The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.
Jim Butcher
#4. My legacy is that I stayed on course ... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
Tina Turner
#5. I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about what anyone might think of me 'cause I've always believed that the true of heart recognize the true of heart.
Quentin Tarantino
#6. Sometimes, when very few know the truth, a single person with only the power of a loud voice will be believed even when they lie.
Marty S. Dalton
#7. I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#8. A third of the houses were ruined by fire or explosions, or even by the former occupants themselves, who, like farmers sowing their fields with salt, believed destruction to be the final act of ownership.
Anthony Marra
#9. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
H.G.Wells
#10. A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them ...
George R R Martin
#11. I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
Sheryl Sandberg
#12. He grimaced back, and for a moment it was a little easier to pretend we both believed there's be an "eventually" to look forward to.
Meagan Spooner
#13. I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.
Lotte Jacobi
#14. I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
Rose Kennedy
#15. If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I planned in the first place.
Magan Vernon
#16. He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.
Mary Balogh
#17. I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it.
Michael Chabon
#18. I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino
#19. Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
Ernie Banks
#20. If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as a writer.
William Meikle
#21. Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where
Richard Russo
#22. although the mechanism isn't clear yet, strenuous exercise changes the categories of genes that prevent the development of chronic inflammation, which more and more, is believed to be the underlying cause of many chronic conditions.
Deborah Kesten
#23. The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.
Judy Collins
#24. Achan carried Arman inside him. He was part of Arman's light. So was every man, woman and child in Er'Rets who believed. Alone, as one man, Achan could not succeed. But if all the people joined together ...
Because the temple of Arman was his people.
Jill Williamson
#25. Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#26. As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
Terence Stamp
#27. Everybody in my family believed in ghosts, and my grandma said it wasn't just bad people who turned into them, it was bad deeds too.
Anna North
#28. I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
James McAvoy
#29. Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
#30. Whatever else the ancient Israelites believed about their God, he was not a tame God.
N. T. Wright
#31. He had told her that he would never care deeply for her, that he was incapable of strong feelings. Tess would - would /spit/ before she believed that nonsense.
Eloisa James
#32. I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.
Colin Wilson
#33. I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
Samuel Butler
#35. Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.
Hillary Clinton
#36. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
Jim Butcher
#37. It's not so long ago that men of your ilk believed in witches and superstition," I pointed out. "Medieval times," he said, waving a hand in the air to dismiss the notion. "This is 1867. The Church has come a long way since then.
John Boyne
#38. The strong took from the weak, only the weak believed otherwise.
Philipp Meyer
#39. If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.
Mira Grant
#40. 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
#41. Over the years I've really believed when you think you're in danger, you are probably not and when you have no idea, you probably are.
Rodney Cocks
#42. The city most believed to be the handsomest in Kentucky never failed to impress ... The streets, lined with booths and wagons from which people displayed their wares, had a festive air.
Jan Watson
#43. If I believed I could free myself, by dying,
from amorous thoughts that bind me to the earth,
I would already have laid these troubled limbs
and their burden in the earth myself:
Francesco Petrarca
#44. Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.
Common
#45. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
Ambrose Bierce
#46. But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.
Alice Munro
#47. I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.
Chuck Hagel
#48. They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
Anne Lamott
#49. If some of my judgments were wrong
and some were wrong
they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation,
Richard M. Nixon
#50. I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.
Sherman Kent
#51. Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
#52. I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.
Woody Allen
#53. Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.
Frederick The Great
#55. Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
Marshall McLuhan
#56. In a recent survey, innovative people - from inventors to scientists, writers to programmers - were asked what techniques they used. Over 70% believed they got their best ideas by exploring areas they were not experts in
Scott Berkun
#57. Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
Henry David Thoreau
#58. (both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)
David Mitchell
#59. The girls we'd believed to have been lost in the haze of regret and recrimination that comes with surviving in the unscrupulous business; this unjust world. But it turned out they'd been here all along, these two; caught forever in a shared moment, preserved together in a silver frame.
Melanie Benjamin
#60. The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.
Leos Carax
#61. They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.
Koushun Takami
#62. He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.
Richard Flanagan
#63. My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.
Arlo Guthrie
#64. A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of Earth, Mars was assumed to be chock-a-block with animate beings, and its putative inhabitants got a lot of column inches and screen time.
Seth Shostak
#65. Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.
Jim Henson
#67. God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.
Jules Verne
#68. In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.
Henry Grunwald
#69. Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
J.B. Morton
#70. I haven't believed in magic because I don't believe in anything that I haven't seen with my own eyes. Therefore, I must go to Paelsia as soon as I can and learn the truth for myself
Morgan Rhodes
#71. They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#72. Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
William Cowper
#73. I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.
Mavis Gallant
#74. The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
E. O. Wilson
#75. I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
Jesse Ventura
#76. Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it?
Thomas Sweeney
#77. 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
#78. I always believed if you take care of your body it will take care of you
Ted Lindsay
#79. It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.
Josh Gad
#80. The world, he believed, is a globe of men who are trying to reach one another and can best do so by the help of goodwill plus culture and intelligence.
E. M. Forster
#81. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.
Karen Armstrong
#82. In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#83. Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
Michel Onfray
#84. None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.
Stepan Chapman
#85. Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.
Nicholas Sparks
#86. But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.
Sharon Gless
#87. I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
Joe Jamail
#88. If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
Kate Atkinson
#89. If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.
Shirley Abbott
#90. If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H.L. Mencken
#91. natural laziness', as he believed that all workers spent little of their time putting in full efforts.
Sagar UB
#92. Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.
Faith Sullivan
#93. For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.
Alberto Manguel
#94. The trouble of the modern age is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did.
T. S. Eliot
#95. Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
Liam Neeson
#96. He understood that she'd always believed herself cursed, his angel. That she lived on stolen time. That she deserved nothing..
Joey W. Hill
#97. In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration.
Kenneth Minogue
#98. And as I walked, I believed myself to be an Adam setting foot in a new Eden, sinless and wild-eyed, my sinews still stiff with creation.
Lauren Groff
#99. I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.
Mike Johanns
#100. That was the strangest timing. The strangest. It's like fate, if I believed in fate. I don't know. Maybe I believe in fate now.
Stephanie Perkins
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