Quotes of: Convinces Keyword

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

Michael Pollan

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Fiona Apple

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Garry Disher

I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.

Jane Krakowski

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

Tucker Carlson

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Elihu Root

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Horst Koehler

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

David Carradine

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Barnes

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Madeleine L'Engle

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Ernestine Rose

Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.

Fuzzy Zoeller

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Harold Pinter

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

Dani Shapiro

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

E.M. Forster