Convinced Quotes - Page 23

• The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals — and sometimes populations — not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfounded, supports the lover who counts on a reconciliation, a letter.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Men, Support

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• In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Too Late, Youth, Adolescence

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Hate, Passion

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.475, Wildside Press LLC

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• Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

  Markus Zusak

  Truth, Believe, Answers

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• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Laughing

  Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hero, Nursing, Nurse

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• Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

  Rene Descartes

  Humorous, Men, Common Sense

  Attributed to Rene Descartes in Ian Glynn "An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind" (p. 7), 2003.

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• I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

  Sarah Dessen

  Safe, Arms, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.353, Penguin

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• 100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Years, Buying Something, Steps

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• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Drug, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012

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• We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

  Blaise Pascal

  Freedom, Democracy, Reason

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• True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Sight, Giving

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Healthy, May

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.30, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

  Yann Martel

  Technology, Ideas, Two

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

  Sherwood Smith

  Men, Angry Man, Cities

  Sherwood Smith (2009). “King's Shield: Book Three of Inda”, p.432, Penguin

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• If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Liars, Dumb

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• What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Agony, Trying

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• A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Eye, Views

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• I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

  Werner Herzog

  Feet, Cooking, Alternatives

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• The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Believe, Tasks

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Men, Long

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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