Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Kenny

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

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.

Lee Kuan Yew

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.

Lee Kuan Yew

China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past.

Kirsten Gillibrand

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

Terri Blackstock

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

Paul Wolfowitz

We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,

Christian Carion

We are going to Hollywood because of the Oscars, and I can't believe it. I'm very proud to be representing French cinema.

Mark Jenkins

This was a statement to the country that the Kenya Wildlife Service organization believes Meru is safe.

Mark Jenkins

This was a statement to the country that the Kenya Wildlife Service organisation believes Meru is safe.

Gary Speed

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Eduardo Galeano

The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

Elizabeth Hand

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Eric Walters

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

Edward Brooke

I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.

With the 'Silly Boy' track, I mean, people knew about it, but it wasn't really like, 'oh that's Eva Simons.' But when 'Take Over Control' came out, that's when people started to get interested in me personally, which is great because it was something I really believed in.

Eugene Fama

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

Eric Schneiderman

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Elizabeth Holmes

I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.

Eric Whitacre

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

Eriq La Salle

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

Erin McKean

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

Evangeline Lilly

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

Evangeline Lilly

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

Evangeline Lilly

In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

Elena Vesnina

For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

Edward Herrmann

I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

Edward Hall

It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.'

Edward P. Jones

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

Edward P. Jones

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Edward P. Jones

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.