Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop

I have to be seen to be believed.
Elizabeth II

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

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 puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
Cat Stevens

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Alain de Botton

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
Bruce Springsteen

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
David Hume

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte Bronte

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.
Kid Rock

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.
Kid Rock