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God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God. — Lawrence Durrell

My fear, which I shared with everyone in the Turkish secular bourgeoisie, was not of God but of the fury of those who believed in Her too much. — Orhan Pamuk

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already. — Seneca The Younger

I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed — Marco Polo

Captain Loft believed that all women fall in love with a uniform and he did not see how it could be otherwise. — John Steinbeck

Hutter thought, not for the first time, that she hated a lot of cops. Ugly, mean drunks who believed the worst of everyone. — Joe Hill

The hand gestures of Italians are not, apparently, as clear-cut as Goethe believed. De Jorio discovered that knowing the purpose of someone's mind — Ross King

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. — Armistead Maupin

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. — Anonymous

After all, the God she believed in cared for every soul, and what happened to the body left behind mattered not at all. — Anne Perry

I have always believed that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the illusion is the tunnel itself. — Sam Harris

We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in and loved — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn't change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her. — Tamara Hughes

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed. — John Thorn

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed. — Diogenes

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. — Viktor E. Frankl

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled — Dennis Prager

Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise. — Edmund White

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. — C.S. Lewis

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was. — Oprah Winfrey

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time. — Jorge Amado

And though I've always believed she and I shared many things in common. I did not know how deeply I could feel it.
It's killing me. — Tahereh Mafi

On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men. — Paul Goodman

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality. — Anne Lamott

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing. — James Gleick

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality. — Alphonso Jackson

I may not have believed in lady luck, but I believed in her fucking sister, irony. That bitch was out to nail me to wall." ~ Caleb — Pippa DaCosta

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. — Walter Raleigh

(not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction). To — Randall Munroe

The Law was not how Israelites achieved salvation - it was how they showed loyalty to the God they believed in. — Michael S. Heiser

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too. — William Faulkner

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. — Paulo Coelho

Political views are influenced not only by forces believed to be irrelevant but by forces that have not entered into conscious awareness. — John R. Hibbing

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed. — Terence Stamp

Just because you believed and it didn't work out your way or according to your timetable, does not mean that it's over. — Jamie Larbi

After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy. — Yasunari Kawabata

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

A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them ... — George R R Martin

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed. — Henri Theil

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known. — Gene Lees

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much. — Kate Atkinson

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not. — Lester Thurow

He knew her, he believed. He would teach her that she was not his possession, he would show her she was free, he would see her flash her wings. — A.S. Byatt

You're worth fighting for. Maybe I'm getting there. Maybe I'm not the bad bet that I believed myself to be for so, so long. — Mia Sheridan

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. — George Eliot

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
It is like all my life I thought the sky was green. — Shannon Hale

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key. — Imran Khan

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed. — Lemony Snicket

We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly. — David McCullough

For all his love, he let her go. He tried his best to escape her. I had not believed that anyone could love like that. — Rosamund Hodge

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained. — Susan Cheever

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. — Edward Snowden

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal. — Andrew Wiles

Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made. — Richard A. Posner

What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing. — Margaret Atwood

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. — Norman Mailer

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. — Phaedrus

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid. — Maggie Stiefvater

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. — R.C. Sproul

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen. — Tony Randall

She had been adamant, that she had not believed — Harriet Smart

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. — Ernest Hemingway,

I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me. — Michael Cunningham

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it. — Richard Branson

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

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

He'd said when. Even in his beaten condition, he believed in whens and not ifs. She never should have doubted his strength — Veronica Rossi

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me. — Joe Theismann

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary. — Wayne Dyer

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen. — Andy Stanley

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Henrietta knew of the heart as an organ; she privately saw it covered in red plush and believed that it could not break, though it might tear. — Elizabeth Bowen

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message. — Edward Schillebeeckx

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. — Ted Dekker

She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers. — Anna Godbersen

There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. — Jacqueline Woodson

Identity, he believed, wad fluid not fixed. — Ekow Eshun

I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself. — Joseph Smith Jr.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in ... — Jeffrey Eugenides

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? — Paul Keating

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws. — Philip Zaleski

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed. — Kevin Powers

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof. — Richard Dedekind

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not. — Anne Bronte

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion — Patricia Crone

What would have happened to me if I would not have believed I would see the goodness of God? — Joel Osteen

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. — Eric Fischl

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ... — Delarivier Manley

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. — William Blake