#vince

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected. ↗

— Rand Beers

#convince #insurgents #people #protected #succeed

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bear #being #certain #convinced #doubts

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time. ↗

— Fred Upton

#every #every time #i #know #me

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#convinced #enthusiasm #must #others #stimulate

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#absolutely #ambition #away #because #choose

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch. ↗

— Ron Bloom

#cause #convinced #find #free #free lunch

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#government #intends #international #iranian #must

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#absolutely #believe #bin #convinced #humble

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