Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was never freaked out about what was going to happen to me. But I always believed in my heart (Armstrong) was born to race bicycles. It was an undeniable force within him, and that's what he was going to do.

I would never have believed it unless I saw it. The devastation just goes on for miles and miles and miles. I mean, it just goes on forever.

Mike Riley

I would never have believed he would be that good. He's completing 70 percent of his passes? That's just ridiculous.

I gold our girl right there that Bradley had nothing to lose. It was do-or-die for them. I don't think they believed me until after the match.

If someone told me 45 years ago, 'You are going to be in Cologne, and the pope will visit you in a synagogue,' I wouldn't have believed it. We have come a long way in mutual support and in mutual understanding and, as the pope said, in mutual love.

He was a strong family man who loved his wife and son dearly. He believed that family was important. It was obvious to me how much his grandkids and kids respected him. His oldest grandson is 35 and they had great respect for their grandfather.

He was an old-school journalist who believed in having his facts straight.

He truly believed from Day 1 that he could win the state championship. I knew the potential was there.

Lynsey Addario

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

Allan Houston

I always said that I would be back and told the fans that I would be back, and I always truly in my heart believed that, ... But sometimes your will, your passion, your competitiveness, kind of override what your body is going through, and I was strictly running off of those emotions and that will.

Bennett Miller

We couldn't have gotten it made without his involvement, without his showing up and saying he believed in us.

We played some great teams early in the season. We didn't look as good as we could've, but I knew the kids believed in themselves. We knew we were eventually going to get better.

We had made this decision well over a year ago. We believed in portable video back then.

We had heard that we were going to make it, but that doesn't mean anything. I was waiting for the call Sunday night to see if we had made it. Thank God it was a good call. We believed that we deserved to get in.

Corey Brewer

We had a lot of doubters, but we just believed in each other and the way we played every night. It feels great, especially since it's our school's first national championship. It doesn't get any better than that.

Martin Jol

We had to take a gamble and make a decision to use three forwards. We believed in it and it's a very important away win for us. But we gave two cheap goals away. That was a big disappointment for me because we only conceded three goals in seven matches before that.

Kurt Eichenwald

I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.

Jules Verne

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Obviously, when it comes with the stock market, the economy and everything else, it's an enormously important position, and I think it relieved people to see (Bush) appoint someone who is believed to be the best person for the job.

Of course, some of us are radicals and anarchists, and I've always believed in making your enemies' worst nightmares come true if you possibly can.

No one believed we could get to this game. This is where I believed we could get to, because we've improved a lot.

Brian Urlacher

No one believed us back then, but there was really no doubt in our mind how good we can be.

No one believed that we could do it this year. We made believers out of ourselves.

No one believed a flood of customers would move over (to SAP) in the first year...We expect those decisions will take some time. Instead, we initially focused on customers most likely to convert, and that included PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers who were also running SAP.

Karin Slaughter

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

Chesty Puller

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.

Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, / And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

My girls are a special bunch. They have embraced us and believed in our plan. I'm so happy for them.

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

She decided to issue a formal denial through a public notary in the city, but by then it was too late. Nobody believed her.

Terry Lewis

She didn't consider herself special. She was just doing what she believed in.

She believed the news but the hurricane changed course and surged right next to her,