Famous Quotes & Sayings

They said they'd take care of it, and I believed them.

A lot of people didn't think we'd get here. But we believed from day one that we could get here. ... We did make the top (title) game like we wanted to, but I'm so proud that we did bring home a third place trophy. There's only two teams that finish out with a win and we're one of them.

A lot of people sold us short this year. I honestly believed it was in us and I think more is in them.

A lot of people said we couldn't build a project like this in Marietta. But I always believed if you offered high quality in a great location, you can't be beat.

Amazingly, he knew lives were in danger but he believed he didn't have the authority, therefore he didn't act. That to me is what is outrageous,

This is believed to be the largest ever seizure of this drug in Australia,

This group, from day one, we believed in ourselves.

Richard Burr

This good young man believed that the federal government was the enemy,

Matt Hasselbeck

There was a time when we talked about how good a team we were but I'm not sure we believed it. Now we don't talk about it so much but I know we believe it.

Rich Rodriguez

There weren't a lot of folks that expected us to win 10 games this year. I think the guys in that locker room believed that they could do it, and they did.

There were four teams who didn't even make this tournament. We wanted to make a difference. We knew it wouldn't be easy, but we believed we could win. There was a lot at stake here.

Al Davis

There were plenty of role models for us. My mother believed in education and she put all three of us through college at Grambling. She did not have a high school education, but it was something she impressed upon us. After I graduated, I left Texarkana for California, because I knew I could not get a job here. I was in business with certification and accounting, so I figured it was best to go out West. So I went there. It was still tough to get in that field, but things opened up for me.

Thomas Reid

This is the philosophical meaning of the word idea; and we may observe that this meaning of that word is built upon a philosophical opinion: for, if philosophers had not believed that there are such immediate objects of all our thoughts in the mind, they would never have used the word idea to express them.

This is what I've always believed that I could do. I mean, if I would have given up on that I don't know how far I would have eventually gotten. I believed that I could turn it around and get over the injuries, get healthy and go out and pitch and show the potential that everybody thought I had early in my career.

David Limbaugh

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

As he spake these words, many believed on him.

Sendhil Mullainathan

As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

Bill Walsh

As a defensive coordinator, he was beloved by his players. They truly believed in him. They'd sacrifice anything to do what he said. He was as unique a man as we've seen from that standpoint.

Bill Walsh

As a defensive coordinator, he was beloved by his players, ... They truly believed in him. They'd sacrifice anything to do what he said. He was as unique a man as we've seen from that standpoint.

Kevin Bacon

As an actor, I've always believed we have dark sides to ourselves,

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

The budgetary increases are a farce. If he really believed in decreasing dependence on foreign oil, he would not have pushed through an energy bill that was full of giveaways to the petroleum industry, with only marginal support to other forms of energy.

The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.

Richard Grasso

They paid me what they believed to be fair and reasonable.

They displayed their character in standing up for what they believed in.

They are believed to be witnesses to the shooting.

If he had been scanning his email for viruses he would never have received the message from the Sober worm. If jailed he'll have plenty of time to reflect on whether he should have believed everything that was sent to him via e-mail.

I felt we could get here (to Columbus) and the kids really believed they could. This will be a tough one for us. They're a good team.

I depend on my team a lot. The whole time I've been playing, I've had confidence in my teammates and believed in my team.

Derek Fisher

I definitely believed that we could get that stop down the stretch. It wasn't that they didn't have enough time to get the shot off, but I felt like we kept fighting and we were going to be able to get that last stop and take it to overtime and pull it out.

Olli Jokinen

I don't think there's any people outside our locker-room who believed we could go this far.

Cuban-Americans view him as part of the administration, and said if he really believed what he was saying he could have done something.

Dan Shechtman

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.