#convince

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them. ↗

— Joan Collins

#easiest #easiest way #get #kids #need

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#been #calling #come #convinced #could

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#archetypes #being #convinced #film #people

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#convinced #generous #had #i #i am

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. ↗

— George Washington

#actions #attachment #convince #criterion #every

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#am #cannot #considered #convinced #europe

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#convinced #i #i am #innocence #power