Convinced Quotes · Page 13

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if…

— Dave Eggers

There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if…

— Jonathan Tasini

I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one...

— Jimmy Carter

The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the…

— D. Elton Trueblood

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the…

— Jean Piaget

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

— Phil Crosby

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

— Jay London

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural…

— James A. Baldwin

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever…

— George Michael

Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine…

— James Madison

Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

— George W. Bush

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

— Francois Rabelais

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one…

— Ronald Fisher

From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and…

— Theobald of Bec

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

— Richard Donner

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body…

— Lucretius

Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm…

— Seamus Heaney

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

— George McGovern

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

— Adam Driver

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

— Seymour Papert

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he…

— Jonathan Swift

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that…

— Maya Angelou