#believed

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ↗

— Maria Monk

#any #awe #believed #dead #great

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#firmly #know #least #nothing

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#american public #anything #because #before #believe

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

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That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work. ↗

— Knute Nelson

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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I have always believed in God. ↗

— Joel Osteen

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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#easy #especially #four #gold #gold medal