Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary David Goldberg

In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned 'Scooterman' and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.

James Spader

When I moved there, I completely believed that anything was possible. I believed I could become part of the fabric of the city, and not by portraying someone, but truly.

Adolf Eichmann

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Jerome Bettis

We set out a long time ago to bring this back home to Pittsburgh. You all believed in us, believed we could get it done. I'm just so thankful for everything that this city has been able to give me. I'm just so happy we were able to give this city the one for the thumb.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

Lauren Bacall

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Nandan Nilekani

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

Dinaw Mengestu

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

Paul Haggis

I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.

Nicola Formichetti

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Paul Keating

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

Jason Smith

We played with a lot of confidence. We believed we could compete.

Steven Hatfill

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.

Bob Ehrlich

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

Bob Ehrlich

People believed what I said was what I believed.

Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

Xavier Niel

Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Samuel Witwer

I've actually been in situations where I've turned down a lot of money to continue on, in certain shows, or to do something that would have lasted years when I didn't even like it. I didn't want to be in any one spot for years, unless I really believed in it, and I really believe in 'Being Human.'

Atul Gawande

I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be good rock n' roll - and I still think it is true.

Ben Carson

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.

Bertha von Suttner

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

We were all over them from the start, and Marquette was a tired hockey team at the end. I sold the kids on this all week. I convinced them they could win this game, and they finally believed it. We've worked hard this year and have taken some lumps. But this is the reward for all of that work.

We were able to rule out Earth-sized planets in some of the orbits where theorists believed they might be found.

We worked their tails off in December and January, and we took our lumps back then knowing that this is what we work for. They understand that. They were able to overcome the setbacks in January and realized they believed in themselves, we believed in them and that's all that mattered.

Tom Osborne

We worked our tails off this week. We were really disappointed in the Gibson Southern finish. So I told them at halftime tonight that we were going to need at least 17 more points to win it, and they believed it.

Kristian Bush

We worked hard for the past two years to make this happen. You have to be convinced that you're going to succeed. It takes focus, and we never believed that it would turn out any differently.

Kelli O'Hara

We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.

We believed we were operating within the system, but we recognize the confusion of the process.