Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andray Blatche

I had a lot of teams and other people tell me that I was going to be a first rounder and that convinced me to enter the draft, ... When I fell into the second round, I was surprised. It was frustrating but there's nothing I can do about it now. I'm here and I'm going to make the most of it.

If you can convince the state to fund us what we need, then we'll be happy to meet the 50 percent.

If you look at the correction that's already occurred in the leadership group, tech, over the past few weeks, it's been pretty severe. I don't expect that there will be a dramatic sell-off on Tuesday -- stocks will go sideways for a while until people become convinced that, while multiples won't expand, the earnings outlook looks pretty good.

How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.

Robert Bork

How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.

I had to convince kids that this was a good place to come to. There is no reason you can't have a good program here. We have good academics, we have good facilities and we play in Clearwater, Florida. I mean, come on.

Brad Pitt

I had to go through this 45-minute ritual every night looking for bugs, cameras, ... I was convinced they were taking me down.

Frank Hadden

I never really saw us winning the championship, but I think we've done enough this year to convince people that we are a good side and there will be a lot of teams that won't relish the prospect of playing us in future.

In each study, we've come away convinced that the use of depleted uranium munitions does not present significant or residual environmental or health risks,

Jared Bernstein

I'm not sure this report convinces us that a recovery is underway in the labor market in any big way.

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

In technology, it's just a lack of serious buying. The market needs to be convinced that the Fed will not raise (interest) rates for the remainder of the year. This is all part of the summer doldrums, but we see cyclical stocks doing a little better here.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I remain convinced that the problems we have in the suburbs have been going on for 30 to 40 years.

Padraig Harrington

I know I've been inconsistent this year. Obviously, there's many reasons for that. But if I finish strong the next couple of months, it will be easy for me in my own mind to convince myself that it was a good year.

His idea of good living was to finally have a wonderful big garage. I had to convince him to give it a chance.

He wrestles well in practice. In the break, I was trying to convince him that he could go out and take this guy down and he could do it, and he did.

I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would have written a review in support of my book,

They're very disciplined, but we watched and we're convinced they just weren't five goals better than us,

You don't have to convince our guys to get up for Kent State.

Plato

SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

John Szarkowski

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

Eddie Irvine

The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael Schumacher to go there.

The group is very strong, but so was the one in qualifications for 2006 World Cup but we still got first place. I am convinced we will qualify for Euro 2008.

The industry wasn't 100 percent convinced that prices would stay high. We're just now at the point where they're starting to spend more.

The majority of our kids don't get through the door unless we can go and convince the employer to give them a go.

Their lives were intertwined in need, driven by greed and lust. Nevertheless, the court is convinced of his love for her,

Tom Segev

The truth is that deep down, the Israelis are still convinced that the presence of thousands of settlers of a hostile population of 1.3 million Palestinians is a situation that could not last.

As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Alcee Hastings

As a matter of fact, religious differences are actually exploited to convince people to participate in primarily political conflicts.

John Cole

Right now, there's not enough signal in the noise to be convinced that there's anything there. One has to be strongly skeptical of all these kind of things. But you have got to be open-minded too. Maybe somebody will find something. But if they do, it has got to be solid.

President Chirac has told him to back down as he was leading the country to the wall. He tried to convince himself he could be France's Margaret Thatcher, but forgot he was only the number two.

Ray LaHood

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

Abraham Lincoln

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.