Best I Believed Thoughts
351 I Believed quotes by 302 unique authors
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I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was…
— Cat Stevens
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I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took…
— Jesse Ventura
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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
— Lech Walesa
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In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man…
— J C Watts
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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could…
— Loretta Young
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely…
— William Faulkner
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
— Annie Dillard
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I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,…
— Ralph Ellison
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If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire…
— Jim Butcher
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This…
— Stephen King
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I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to…
— Lance Armstrong
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
— Gregory Maguire
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For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past…
— Marya Hornbacher
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I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I…
— Kate Braverman
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I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for…
— Jodi Picoult
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I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking…
— David Benioff
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At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams…
— Robin McKinley
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And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?
— Lilith Saintcrow
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I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in…
— Jack Kerouac
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