Famous Quotes & Sayings

We believed we might have a better opportunity in Geneva.

We believed we had the proper authorization to build the plant and build it where it is.

We believed we had a deal with the landlord and even had the paperwork drawn up.

We believed we could do it, and that's all it takes.

Sergey Brin

We believed we could build a better search. We had a simple idea, that not all pages are created equal. Some are more important,

We believed this would be our major fund-raiser and it could grow, ... We have grown every year.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

Richard Brown

We believed there was demand for low-power, low-cost processors, and it has been tougher than we had originally anticipated, but now finally we think we have a clear space in the market.

Barbara Christian

We believed the governor would stand by the victim.

We believed that it had a good chance of preserving that population of the desert tortoise. I just hope the hard fight that occurred doesn't get wasted.

We believed that Cisco's results would further magnify the inventory problems facing their semiconductor suppliers -- and they did, ... While revenue increased 14 percent from the previous quarter, total inventory increased 59 percent and raw materials increased 335 percent.

We believed or hoped that the tactic of a suicide bombing would not be exported. This is a new threat for us.

Ozzie Guillen

We believed in ourselves. They have confidence. They know they have a lot of time. Our pitching staff is (starting) to put it together.

We believed in ourselves before we went down there, but I think the girls were actually surprised by how well we played. We're young and small (in numbers), so it sent a nice message to all of them. ... We're showing that we can play with the best of them. I'm really proud of them for what they've accomplished so far.

We believed in ourselves all along. This is what we came here to do and we did it.

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.

Anne Enright

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

Arlo Guthrie

My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.

Chen Ning Yang

There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

Russell Wilson

Honestly, being a 5'11" quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn't define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.

Taylor Schilling

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

Jerry Weintraub

When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it.

Valeria Golino

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

Ne-Yo

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

Luis Federico Leloir

We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a novel result since the process of oxidation was believed to require the integrity of the cells.

Geoff Smith

We didn't put that pressure on Carl because we didn't want him overdriving, ... We didn't want him to think his employer thought he should be able to do it. But he thought he should be able to do it, his team thought he should do it, we believed he could do it, and he did it.

James McGreevey

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

Edmund White

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.