Convinced Quotes
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
Charlotte Bronte -
I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.
W. Daniel Hillis -
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
Albert Einstein -
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.
Evo Morales -
Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.
Grace Dell Nichols
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I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
Mahatma Gandhi -
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
Will Self -
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
Vissarion Belinsky -
I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus -
I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.
Lily Allen
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Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil -
I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
Sara Zarr -
Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -
I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.
Earle Brown -
I was not convinced with the outcome. One day off helped. I was rejuvenated. We know that from now on we cannot lose.
Daisuke Matsuzaka
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Baron Louis de Rothschild, one of the wealthiest Jewish men in Vienna, tried to leave the city. The Nazis stopped him at the airport and put him in prison, and whatever they did to him there convinced him that he ought to sign over everything to the Nazi regime. Then they let him leave. The SS took over the Rothschild Palace on Prinz Eugenstrasse and renamed it the Center for Jewish Emigration.
Edith Hahn Beer -
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes -
I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.
Ethan Peck -
I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.
Cathy Guisewite