Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Davis

We believed he fit the bill at that time.

We believed Brad was the elite coaching candidate. He came from a winning program with the Philadelphia Eagles. He's an NFC guy, knows NFC opponents and played an important role in the development of Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Jeff Schweitzer

You know, in the big picture, to win conference this year was a real stretch. Give the kids credit. They believed in themselves and they worked hard for this.

There already have been seven people released in the United States who were wrongfully convicted and confessed to the crime. Twenty-two years ago, I wouldn't have believed this. But after what I lived through, I know that it happens. Something needs to be changed.

Dave Mustaine

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

Dick Gephardt

I've always believed as a value that the government has a vital - not overwhelming, but vital - role to play in furthering human welfare and good. I think we have an important supportive role to play, hopefully intelligent and sensible.

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.

We outscored them 6-2 in the second half. Guys kept fighting and that's a product of our program. These kids believed that they can win and keep fighting.

Rachel Platten

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.

But since such reconstruction demand will weaken sooner or later and demand for new vehicles in the US is largely believed to fall this year, I must say there may be some downside risk going forward.

Penn Jillette

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

The governor has always believed that you need to be prepared to win a campaign at every level.

We see tremendous potential with Disney Fairies, ... We believed it will become one of the Walt Disney Company's most successful properties.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Heath Ledger

In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product.

Iyanla Vanzant

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

Gail Collins

The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

Amity Shlaes

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Amy Bloom

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

Alfonso Soriano

When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican... there are not a lot of rich people there.

Adrian Grenier

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

The pharmacy doubled her dosage for a period of several months. By making those statements, she firmly believed that due to the condition she was in at the time.

David Moyes

The players are coming into the sort of form we believed they had. And confidence is a big thing. We are on a run now, and it's much easier to be a manager when you are winning than when you are losing.

We thought this horse would run over anything. We believed he could run up I-95 or go through the snow.

This town was just so important to him. Newman was the quiet person in the background, always doing what he believed was right.

We consider ourselves a partner in the Vickery Meadow area. It's believed our property will be the catalyst in the rehabilitation of this area.