She Believed She Could Quotes

#1. She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful. - Author: Alexander McCall Smith

#2. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world. - Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing. - Author: Alexander McCall Smith

#4. My mother, in the style of the times, told me I could do anything I set my sights on. She said I could be the president, an astronaut, or the next Charles Schulz. I believed her because at that point in my life I hadn't yet noticed the pattern of her deceptions. - Author: Scott Adams

#5. I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening. - Author: Lauren DeStefano

#6. When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#7. She trusted God, and she believed His plan for her life was far greater than anything she could dream up for herself. - Author: Krista Noorman

#8. She could no longer understand the Faith from the night of the ratting, who had believed that the world was only teeth and hunger, nothing but killing and dead bones in the dust. Hunger cannot explain why I love the blue of this sky, she thought. - Author: Frances Hardinge

#9. She remembered the days when they'd been each other's everything, when just being together was enough. When she believed their love could conquer the world. How long had it been since Michael had said her name in that special way, when they'd talked all night about their dreams and their future? - Author: Dominique Wilson

#10. I think Shehnaz was right. In the end it wasn't about the Poet, or me or anyone. It was about a minute, five minutes, ten minutes in which she believed, with utter certainty, that she simply could not endure any more.' It seemed impossible, already, to have denied this truth for so long. - Author: Kamila Shamsie

#11. Well, she'd been in shock. She could've believed just about anything. The Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Santa... Yes, Virginia, men do let you down. - Author: Melissa Tagg

#12. She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it. - Author: Daryl Gregory

#13. You humble me. You had faith in me, didn't you?" She shook her head. "I was true to what I believed and wanted. I could not speak for you, only for myself. - Author: Anonymous

#14. Love, she knew - where once she hadn't believed - could be quiet and sweet, and still hold the world. - Author: J.D. Robb

#15. Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were. - Author: Katherine Anne Porter

#16. Henrietta knew of the heart as an organ; she privately saw it covered in red plush and believed that it could not break, though it might tear. - Author: Elizabeth Bowen

#17. What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#18. When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her.
'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?'
'It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his job to help you through it. - Author: Judy Blume

#19. She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them. - Author: Tommy Wallach

#20. Some moments I believed Max could've easily been Red Riding Hood's wolf. But she probably would have liked it. - Author: Shannon Delany

#21. I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true. - Author: Sam Raimi

#22. She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. - Author: Ken Follett

#23. Why did you say you believed me ?"
In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.
"Because I trust you. - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#24. She could have never believed in the morning that her colorless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#25. She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales. - Author: Susanna Clarke

#26. What a failure her life had been. Would she have lied to God if she'd had more faith, been more righteous? How could she possibly have a son at her age? And yet, if she had believed all along . . . - Author: Jill Eileen Smith

#27. My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. - Author: Buffalo Bill

#28. I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen. - Author: Philippa Gregory

#29. She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before. - Author: Susan Wiggs

#30. Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them ... you could use them, you could change them. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#31. As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be. - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#32. In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president. - Author: Karen Hughes

#33. She had believed she could love Sam and not pay the price. Everything has a price, she'd once been told by a Spidersilk merchant in the Red Desert. How right he was. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#34. Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift you, or the women believed it. They hadn't yet seen Hitler at the opera house. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#35. He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard the soft sounds she could still make from the broken parts that had waited decades to be missed. - Author: Anne Lamott

#36. Over the years she'd found that that was all it took, that lazy smile, and she could tell the truth without risk of being believed. - Author: Laini Taylor

#37. Funny things, aren't they? People. They only believed in what they could see. Appearances were all that mattered, and no one would ever care what she was like on the inside. No one cared that she was breaking apart. - Author: Amy Zhang

#38. And though I've always believed she and I shared many things in common. I did not know how deeply I could feel it.
It's killing me. - Author: Tahereh Mafi

#39. Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second; a book could scintillate forever. - Author: Veronica Henry

#40. We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#41. Florentino Ariza was left with the nagging suspicion that this was not her last word. He believed that when a woman says no, she is waiting to be urged before making her final decision, but with her he could not risk making the same mistake twice. - Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#42. she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor. - Author: Amanda Eyre Ward

#43. She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.
Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies. - Author: J.M. Barrie

#44. If I believed in soul mates or any of that shit, I knew she was mine. I could feel it, this connection with her I couldn't possibly share with anyone else. Like we fit, this fucked -up puzzle that made no sense until we aligned the pieces. - Author: A.L. Jackson

#45. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it. - Author: David Nicholls

#46. How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable? - Author: Anne McCaffrey

#47. For every woman, there is that one man who could get her to go anywhere he wanted her to go, do anything he wanted her to do - reach into her soul and turn her whole world on its ear - challenge everything she thought she believed.
Highlighted by 24 Kindle users - Author: Lenore Wolfe

#48. It was a table that could seat six, but Ben was the only one there. She had never seen Ben with any of the other boys. It was too bad, because she believed Ben Hanscom had treasures buried inside. He would yield them up to a kind and patient prospector...if one ever came along. - Author: Stephen King

#49. Her beliefs were not extravagant. She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments. Her faith was bounded by her kitchen but, if she was put to it, she could believe also in the banshee and in the Holy Ghost. - Author: James Joyce

#50. It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color. It was that Trixie knew she couldn't have loved Jason this hard if he hadn't loved her that way too. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#51. Jasmine believes in a prophecy that says she is destined to love a man named Josh Toby. Okay, fine. He could believe that. Hell, he had friends who believed carbohydrates were the work of the devil. True love made sense at least. - Author: Diana Holquist

#52. I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be. - Author: Maya Rudolph

#53. Mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social order. Of course she was wrong; when I grew up in the South, a Roman Catholic was the weirdest thing you could be. - Author: Pat Conroy

#54. She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#55. To be studious was to be the opposite of boring, she had believed; it was to be so interested, so madly curious, that one simply could not wait for the answers to arrive on their own: one had to go chase them in the only manner available. - Author: Meredith Duran

#56. But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face, how she was a ferryboat captain's daughter who believed that people could fly. - Author: Alice Hoffman

#57. She could have had an affair with him. He was a devout Muslim, as were all the guerrillas, but she doubted whether that would have made any difference. She believed what her father had used to say: "Religious conviction may thwart a timid desire but nothing can stand against genuine lust. - Author: Ken Follett

#58. She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing what she had long suspected she could do, and she could not deny that it was gratifying in the extreme. - Author: Kate DiCamillo

#59. She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying. - Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar

#60. Was her God up there in the sky as she believed? Did he truly hear man's whispers,his thoughts? Hunter could see his own Gods,Mother Earth,Mother Moon, Father Sun, the wind coming from four directions. It was easy to believe in what he could see. Why did Loretta's God hide himself? - Author: Catherine Anderson

#61. If a sorceress wanted a man who would stay faithful even when bespelled and accosted by nymphs, then she had to support that man even when he believed he could rehab his douchelord brother. - Author: Kresley Cole

#62. She wondered if you could love someone too much. If you could it wasn't fair. People didn't have a chance. Love was all you had in the end. It was like sleep, like clean water. When you fell off the world there was still love because love made the world. That's what she believed. That's how it was. - Author: Tim Winton

#63. I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person. - Author: Lewis Black

#64. I believed she'd gotten past ther hatred of me, turning to pity instead. But how could I make that into love? - Author: Alex Flinn

#65. Let me tell you something right now, something that I don't want you ever to forget: Starbucks is an abomination.
Lex was speechless. She now believed that there was no way in a million years this man could possibly be a blood relative. - Author: Gina Damico

#66. (Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much. - Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

#67. She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers. - Author: Anna Godbersen

#68. She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl. - Author: Noriko Ogiwara

#69. She Believed She Could So She Did. - Author: Rogena Mitchell-Jones