Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Craig

My job was to manage that network of people and -- if people couldn't be convinced to support us -- to take them out, as people who could stop us from selling our project.

My little monkey's doing great. We're convinced with all the information we have that this is the big guy, and he's going to be around for a long time.

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

J. Taylor

We were convinced he was guilty then, ... We just couldn't prove it.

We need a big debate on whether it is responsible to end nuclear power - I am convinced it is not.

I think for people who were not convinced of the risk, this provides further evidence.

Pablo Picasso

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Charles Kennedy

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

People are convinced there isn't robust demand by consumers.

Mariella Frostrup

There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.

Ian Hislop

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.

David D. Burns

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

At least three times, I was convinced I was going to die.

Carlos Menem

As president of Argentina, I repeat we are fully convinced of the legitimacy of out historical rights,

Paul Hewitt

Talent-wise, I'm convinced we can be competitive. But we've suffered injuries to Lewis and now Mario. It's a long season, and we're getting better.

Roy Blunt

Eventually we're going to take something to the floor that is a test of the members more than we intended to test the members, because that's just going to happen. I'm convinced that we're going to be fine when we take this to the floor on Thursday. But hard things to do are hard.

I told them that I couldn't because I was still at the East School, but they convinced me that nobody would ever find out.

John Culberson

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish.

I'm not convinced we're heading into a recession. But we will have a slow down.

Dick Murphy

I'm not convinced that we have data that would suggest we need to expand this program. We're expanding a program where the results have so far shown us that staying home may be better.

I'm not convinced that the prospect for universal messaging on one mailbox can handle all your needs.

I'm not convinced that talks would lead anywhere. (But) in the short to medium term, they would take the pressure out of the system that's driving oil prices.

I'm not convinced that it's necessary on campus. I don't view it as a problem.

The yield curve is reflecting too pessimistic an outlook on the economy. The market will just have to be convinced otherwise.

Keith Richards

Nothing presented here tonight has convinced us. The program at Edith Williams School is in its infancy. How can you pattern Positive Connections after a program that is not even off the ground yet?

George Porter

I wanted to stay, but my granddaughter convinced me Sunday morning that we should leave, ... She was sitting in the gazebo and she said, 'Grandpa, when are we going to leave?' She doesn't usually scare that easy.

Julia Mancuso

They are not convinced I'm American; they think I'm Italian.

Sam Rainsy

The government must be convinced to support the organization and the functioning of an international tribunal to prosecute the Khmer Rouge.

The president is in high spirits because he's convinced of his innocence and of the illegitimacy of the tribunal.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.