I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
Mikhail Gorbachev

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.
Jimmy Smits

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
Siegfried Sassoon

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
Jasper Carrott

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.
Chris Chocola

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
Alvin Adams

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Roberto Clemente

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
Harry Reid

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
Walter Legge

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Harold Kushner

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.
George C. Williams

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Scipio Africanus

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
Mary Douglas

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
Barbara Lee

I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
Albert Reynolds

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
Larry Bossidy

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
Marie Louise

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