#convince

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them. ↗

— Joan Collins

#easiest #easiest way #get #kids #need

In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#center #clinton #convinced #countless #dinner

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#huge #play #pretty #stadiums #them

If you can't convince them, confuse them. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#convince #them #you

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more. ↗

— Artur Davis

#convince #convinces #democrats #governor #governor romney

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? ↗

— Richard Donner

#convince #could #fly #going #how

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends