Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Harkin

I've said time and time again, there is little risk of BSE in U.S. beef, but it is obvious that we have not yet convinced key trading partners of that.

Martina Navratilova

I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

Steve Jobs

We convinced people fairly rapidly that survival, at least in the short term, was not an issue.

John Edward

We're going to try to do a little better this time, and I'm convinced we will.

Joe Namath

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

He pulled that head cover off, and there was a nasty old fungus. This is a wood driver ... and I was convinced that it had oozed into that driver.

He only has to convince one person that the government is overbearing and has been able to cut deals with people.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

It has taken two or three weeks to convince our counterparts -- the United States and (other) NATO countries -- that while withdrawing the (Yugoslav) troops, it's necessary to leave some of them behind.

Investors are not convinced (the deal) will necessarily go through, or at least as two firms as we know them today with the full (product) line-up.

William Osler

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Be convinced of one Truth about Me; Swami will never lay his hand on a task without proper reason and without some profound effect that will flow there from.

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.

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?

Jacques Rogge

Then would still come, of course, the second part. The sports movement would have to convince the governments.

Roy Blunt

Eventually we're going to take something to the floor that is a test of the members more than we intended to test the members, because that's just going to happen. I'm convinced that we're going to be fine when we take this to the floor on Thursday. But hard things to do are hard.

Paul Hewitt

Talent-wise, I'm convinced we can be competitive. But we've suffered injuries to Lewis and now Mario. It's a long season, and we're getting better.

Tom DeLay

It's incredibly irresponsible to try to convince the American people that there is no problem.,

They had him for 48 hours and finally they convinced him what he should say.

There was nothing that was said to inspire confidence. Until we see some end-market pickup, I'm not going to be convinced the end is near.

Raf Simons

I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.

George Porter

I wanted to stay, but my granddaughter convinced me Sunday morning that we should leave, ... She was sitting in the gazebo and she said, 'Grandpa, when are we going to leave?' She doesn't usually scare that easy.

It took me weeks to convince her not to drop out of school because she got a C.

Dick Murphy

It took a long time for me to convince my staff people to leave me unscheduled from 2:00 to 4:00 everyday. And I need to do that as mayor. I need to schedule accessibility time.

Julia Mancuso

They are not convinced I'm American; they think I'm Italian.

It was pretty hard to convince the kids that we had a chance.

It's very easy to convince people that the devil you know is better than the devil you don't,

It's wonderful. We worked really hard to convince people in Oakmont and Kenwood it would be a good idea. A lot of people did a lot of work on the ground, walking. I think that made the difference.

It seems like every year, I've been able to convince (the team) it's time to go to work when the region tournament comes around no matter how we did before we got here. I'm just so proud of them. This is like I thought we should be playing all year long. And with all the injuries and move always we had, this makes (tonight's win) even better.

Hugh Johnson

It's a trading rally, and not much more than that. If there's anything you can hang your hat on, it's that with every passing day, some investors become convinced that there's not going to be any serious fallout or damage to the economy or earnings due to the hurricanes.

Adriano Galliani

I took the decision because I was convinced that it was impossible to play.

It was the first time he had run in two weeks. He took two weeks off to heal (from a severe blister on his foot) and we are very pleased to see how he did. It was hard to convince him to take the time off.

It was so severe that at one stage Steve had put on his parachute because he was convinced the plane was falling apart.