Convinced Quotes

1364 Convinced quotes by 1066 unique authors

There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life,… — Maynard Jackson
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. — Frederick Lenz
Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the… — Frederick Lenz
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do… — Charles Baudelaire
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was… — Patrick Stewart
I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even… — Dani Shapiro
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible… — Maya Angelou
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region. I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am… — Heinz Fischer
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side… — Vladimir Lenin
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know… — Andrew Ryan
Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again! I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to… — Jermaine Jackson
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and… — Paul Bailey
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a… — Mort Kondracke
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for… — Criss Jami
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay… — Pierre Trudeau
I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one… — Robert Musil
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences… — E. M. Forster
I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion… — James Anthony Froude
Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in… — Craig Stone
If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view? — Richard Armour
I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very… — Charles Krauthammer
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. — Saul Bellow
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow

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