#convince

I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#beer #cheap #convince #dumb #enough

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#charms #convince #done #enough #must

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#anybody #being #convince #ever #how

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#contact #convinced #ever #fortune #had

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#am #carbon #carbon dioxide #convinced #destructive

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#club #convinced #englishman #every #exclusive

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. ↗

— Evita Peron

#decently #live #oneself #right #takes

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't! ↗

— Antoinette Perry

#become #child #children #convinced #could

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#imagine #past #pretend #remember #you