(528 quotes found)
“I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.”
Dick Cheney
“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
Thomas Love Peacock
“As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.”
Thucydides
“Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit toge”
Thomas Carlyle
“I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.”
Barbara Warren
“Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.”
John H. Patterson
“I had been convinced that I should do the book because I was turning 40. Well, turning 40 doesn't mean that all of a sudden you know more than you did when you were 39 or 38, ... At the time, (canceling the book) was the hardest decision I had ever made.”
Oprah Winfrey
“But logic never could convince the heart”
Colin Raye
