Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Steve May

We have a year to convince John McCain and the rest of Arizonans about how harmful this measure really is.

Dean Stanley

There are a lot of good things here, and we've got to convince other people of that,

Michael Buckley

We usually are able to convince the person it makes more sense for them to cooperate,

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Pierre Ellis

This will probably be of great satisfaction to the Fed and will convince them that economic growth is on track without worrying them that interest rates are seriously too low.

Gary Wolf

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

E. P. Thompson

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

Erich Bergen

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.

Edward M. Lerner

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Patrick Clawson

I think he is mistaken in his optimism,

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Greg Boyle

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Gilbert Gottfried

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

Jane March

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Patrick Rothfuss

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

LeVar Burton

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

James Wolfensohn

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

James Woods

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Brit Hume

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

Brit Hume

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

C. S. Lewis

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Susan B. Anthony

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Tracy Chapman

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,

J. C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

Thomas Aquinas

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Samuel Johnson

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.