Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're trying to convince them to leave without using force, ... We tell them about the toxicity of the water.

Patrick Doyle

We knew it would be close, ... was able to spend a lot of money. They were able to get out their message and convince people to vote no.

Jason Terry

We think we can win a game with our defense. We're convinced about that.

When I saw that study I was not convinced of the significance of the failure of the monkeys. There are many ways for an experiment to fail and most failures are not scientifically interesting. I immediately thought: we could do that in starlings.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

Hans Kung

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

Issa Rae

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.

With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.

Charles Eastman

Yet, if an enemy should honor us with a call, his trust will not be misplaced, and he will go away convinced that he has met with a royal host!

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

Raekwon

I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

Mads Mikkelsen

First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

John Edwards

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.

Blaise Pascal

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The governor must still convince independents and moderates that he is as he seemed to be last year ... a figure in Sacramento who stood for solutions and an end to partisan bickering, who put the people's interests first.

Sam Rainsy

The government must be convinced to support the organization and the functioning of an international tribunal to prosecute the Khmer Rouge.

Richard Leakey

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

Three-fourths of the state legislatures would have to say yes to that. Opponents are trying to convince legislators that if they ratify the amendment, there won't be any more federal money,

We've been fighting hard now for a couple of years to get back nationally to a legitimate national level of a program. I'm convinced we're there.

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

Jennifer McMahon

I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.

Rick Carlisle

I wasn't convinced that there was any way Steve Jackson could play tonight after the fall he took on Wednesday. I went and saw him at the hospital after the game and he was in a lot of pain.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

I was not convinced with that outcome. The day off helped very much. I was able to rejuvenate. Up until the game, I did have the weight of the flag on me because we could not lose again. Once the game started, I was back to myself.

We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..

Bill Richardson

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

We had two good wins so far but I'm not totally convinced that were already out of a slump.

We were 100 percent convinced she could step in. She has really developed her range. She's not that big, but she's strong, and she can play inside and out.

Johan Bruyneel

We're convinced that he would have kept his leader's jersey had he not crashed. You don't take the yellow jersey away from a rider who crashed out.

We are totally convinced that this is vital to our state.

We are the kings of offline niches. We are convinced that the future of the media world is the confluence of new and old media tied together.

We are the kings of offline niches, ... We are convinced that the future of the media world is the confluence of new and old media tied together.

Jack Levin

We forget just how manipulative and shrewd and crafty some of these guys are. They have the street smarts necessary to convince these women that they're innocent guys and that they're genuinely in love.

Marshall Herskovitz

The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.