Convinced Quotes

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.
Drew Curtis

Getting, Talking, Either

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

Hard, Find, Fashion

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.
Robert Barany

Humanity, Whole, Quite

In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.
Alana Stewart

Life, Important, After

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.
Bo Gritz

Home, Alive, Prove

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.
Tom Scholz

Good, Growth, Sake

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Body, Election, Debate

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Francine Prose

School, Forget, Trying

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.
Bill Scott

Government, Justice, Honest

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.
George Tenet

May, Against, Next

My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
Melanie Klein

Love, Work, Hate

Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.
John Cena

Career, Place, Early

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.
Michael Ledeen

Bad, Means, Face

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons

Teacher, Writing, Sense

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
Jane Haddam

True, Fact, Everybody

I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.
Joyce Banda

Life, Education, Women

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
Alice Hamilton

Men, Food, Hands

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.
Ron Rash

Hate, Eyes, Sometimes

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
Fritz Zwicky

Time, Brain, Universe

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn

Important, Early, Population

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
L.A. Reid

Music, Best, Greatest

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
Spalding Gray

Age, Waiting, Mother

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
Salmon P. Chase

Justice, Once, Soldiers

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.
Joe Flanigan

Fun, Lost, Give

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
Peter Bichsel

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.
Don Cornelius

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.
Alex Morrison

Government, Chance, Support

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
Arthur Peacocke

Life, Integrity, Honesty

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
Cynthia Heimel

Faith, Great, Woman

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
Robert Huber

Power, Continue, Discovery

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