Believed Quotes
2206 quotes by 1641 authors
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In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed…
— Kristin Cashore
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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none…
— David Levithan
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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe…
— Robin Wasserman
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I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way…
— Shannon Hale
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But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a…
— Robin Sloan
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At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors…
— Frances Hardinge
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I'm not crazy and we're not alone. I told them, but the only two people who ever believed me were the schizophrenic abducted by aliens…
— Gena Showalter
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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to…
— Jane Austen
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Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits…
— Barack Obama
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Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur,…
— Kristen Britain
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I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face,…
— Liz Kessler
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I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but…
— Alice Munro
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We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take…
— William H. Gass
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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to…
— Jane Austen
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives…
— Robert Jordan
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I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like…
— Katy Perry
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Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux:…
— Emma Forrest
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She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness…
— Dorothy Koomson
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