#convince

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#adolescence #convinced #everyone #first #fourteen

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bad government #convinces #government #history #me

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#actions #convince #could #democracy #elections

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch. ↗

— Brian Eno

#celebrity #convince #everything #fascinating #flat

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

#actor #always #because #broke #cause

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#enthusiastic #goes #meet #might #out

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

#consisted #convinced #day #france #gigantic

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is. ↗

— David Horowitz

#conservatives #convinced #deal #disturbing #duplicate

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#convinced #depends #events #far #happiness