Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Reinsdorf

I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.

Neil Young

I never believed in much, but I believed in you

Joan Chen

I'm sure I had a certain presence. It just happened. I didn't have too big of a problem with it because my family grounded me very well and I didn't understand what fame is and the corruption that fame could bring. I was too naive. I was very much a kid. I believed that people just loved me.

I'm thrilled. I always believed this was a Chicago show. We did the very first reading here in 2003. It's perfect that we're now coming home.

It's hurt him, and it's hurt him where he has always believed he had great strength, and that's in executive management. This looks like they don't know what they are doing.

It was nice to see that. Our fans have been with us the whole time. When we were playing Dallas and New York and all the media people were saying we were going to lose, the fans stuck by us and believed in us.

Jonathan Cain

It was like dragging a sled up a hill, a very heavy sled. It's been a long way to climb our way back, and yet I always believed in this catalog.

Oh man, no one believed it could happen, ... It feels so much better, because no one believed.

None of my clients believed they did anything wrong.

It was a gradual process. And we worked hard because we believed in the band.

It was a great test for us and we came through. It wasn't our night but we just found a way to win. We kept plugging and the shots fell and we believed in what we were doing.

It was a hard race, a very difficult race. I felt really tired in the last lap and I believed I could fight for bronze. But I don't know what happened at the finish -- I was able to do it.

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.

They really believed that these veterans were going to come to Washington with rifles and armaments and create a coup, storm the White House, kill the president, take over the government.

I fully believed then that he fully intended to kill me.

If you had told me two years ago that we'd have that kind of increase, I wouldn't have believed it, ... It's been phenomenal. They're a great bunch of kids and have worked extremely hard.

If you look at the shooting, the fact that we got 70 shots was amazing. I think that's a sign that they believed they could make the shot and a good majority of them went in and out.

In this particular building it was believed that the window structure met the requirements as a secure perimeter. Obviously, after what happened on Saturday night, it did not. It was breached and we're looking at changes right now.

Jason Molina

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

In the late '90s investors believed that tech was such a great secular growth story that cycles didn't matter. In this rebound, the only thing that matters is the economic context.

Charles Camarda

In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends, ... They believed in space exploration. They knew the risks, but they believed in what they were doing. They showed us that the fire of the human spirit is insatiable.

In practice, the team felt him, they believed in him, they just waited for him to get in the game and lead them. He demands respect when he's in there.

If you told me before the season we would win 18 games this year, I?m not sure I would have believed you.

If you would have told me we were going to do that, there's no way I would have believed you. We just came out and played really well.

If you would have told me we'd finish fourth... I don't think we would have actually believed it. I don't think we knew how good we were.

Maria Semple

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

I never wavered. I always believed that I was innocent because I knew I was innocent.

Mike Johanns

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

Chris Turner

In 90 percent of the cases, this would have gone to a runoff, ... We believed that all of the other candidates were planning for a runoff, but we wanted to get it in one shot.

John O. Brennan

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

Jimmie Johnson

I believed this team could still win. No doubt Chad not being here is a huge handicap but everyone stepped up. I am so proud of this Lowe's team.

Marsha Blackburn

I believed these cuts were necessary several years ago, and I believe they're necessary now, ... Fortunately we've made progress in making our spending concerns a front burner issue in Washington.