#convince

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#ever #i #novels #only #the only thing

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#arc #away #convinced #every #every time

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#american #american values #antipathy #apologize #arrogance

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#convinced #far #first #first thing #man

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

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

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#convince #create #false #help #i

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#girlfriend #i #me #out #put

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#because #between #call #certain #comes