Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Chuck D.

Last year's team was probably the first team I had that really played together as a complete team and believed that they were never out of a game.

Last year we were up here for exhibition games and I was still hoping to be on the team. A year later, it's a totally different situation. I would have never believed it would happen.

Many school systems are going to continue having to do more with less when they believed the improving economy was going to lift that burden from them.

Mr. Guardia was a good friend of Mr. Crawford, yes. And he believed Mr. Guardia to be a fine, upstanding person.

One of the things we always talk about is that the game is never over until we say it's over. The team believed that and hung in there and created some breaks that led to the win.

Obviously, when it comes with the stock market, the economy and everything else, it's an enormously important position, and I think it relieved people to see (Bush) appoint someone who is believed to be the best person for the job.

Of course, some of us are radicals and anarchists, and I've always believed in making your enemies' worst nightmares come true if you possibly can.

No one believed we could get to this game. This is where I believed we could get to, because we've improved a lot.

Brian Urlacher

No one believed us back then, but there was really no doubt in our mind how good we can be.

No one believed that we could do it this year. We made believers out of ourselves.

No one believed a flood of customers would move over (to SAP) in the first year...We expect those decisions will take some time. Instead, we initially focused on customers most likely to convert, and that included PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers who were also running SAP.

Karin Slaughter

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

Chesty Puller

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.

Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, / And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

My girls are a special bunch. They have embraced us and believed in our plan. I'm so happy for them.

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

Christopher Durang

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius, ... But I believed everything my teachers and many in my family said.

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Free thinkers and libertines who once believed that marriage was boring and humdrum now think it is the most exciting thing in the world - as long as it's Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene.

For years they were believed to be missing. Then four months ago they were discovered in one of the museum's depositories, sitting in a sealed crate out in Acton.

Four years ago I had a vision, I had a plan. I'm not sure how many people believed in that vision and believed in that plan.

Hasso Plattner

From my earliest days developing business software, I have always believed that design has to start with the user, ... Businesses around the globe need to look for innovation by focusing on their customers.

From information from the witnesses it is believed the individuals we have in custody were the only ones involved in the incident.

Diane Setterfield

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

I don't think a great many people really believed that (the Delphi bankruptcy) was going to happen.

We were convinced we were going to win. We believed it. We threw everything at them, but we couldn't break them.

We've never believed that we needed to outspend Mark Green. People in this media market trust Scott Walker. We're comfortable.

Kurt Eichenwald

I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.

Jules Verne

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

I was fortunate both as a player and a coach to have worked and played for people who stayed true to what they believed in.

I was saddened and disappointed. I always believed he was quite happy in Baltimore.