#vince

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#afterwards #anybody #because #convinced #family

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 only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#already #did #five #i #lined

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#always #believes #bible #convinced #ever

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

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#alcohol #among #athletes #because #convince

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial