Convinced Quotes - Page 29

• I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

  Deborah Harkness

  Views, Magic, Important

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

  Gail Carriger

  Dog, Men, Terrible

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Animal, Thinking, Skin Color

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• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

  David Levithan

  Night, Air, Realize Things

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• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Deception, Example

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Grateful, Heart

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.128, Tyndale House

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• The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

  William Hazlitt

  Errors, World, Dread

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160

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• Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Children, Badass

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• Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

  Beth Moore

  Heart

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• Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

  Patrick Ness

  Looks, Arms

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Imagination, Vampire

  Ilona Andrews (2015). “Magic Gifts: A Kate Daniels Novella”, p.44, Penguin

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• In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

  Julia Child

  Fighting, Ideas, Blood

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.184, Anchor

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• Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

  Mark Strand

  Summer, Strong, Passion

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.406, Knopf

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• Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Young

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• The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Hands, Differences

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• Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.

  Margaret George

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too.

  Hilary Duff

  People, Perfect, Realizing

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• I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Fear, Real

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 04, 2014

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• I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, School, Thinking

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.158, Prometheus Books

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• The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, Behaviour, Unbelievable Things

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• Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Needs, World

  Malorie Blackman (2010). “Boys Don't Cry”, p.233, Random House

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• Iain didn't go back to sleep for a long while. He continued to think about all the logical reasons he would never allow himself to be turned into a lovesick weakling like Patrick, and when he finally fell asleep, he had convinced himself that he would distance his heart from his mind. He dreamed about her.

  Julie Garwood

  Distance, Heart, Sleep

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.163, Penguin

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• I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Disappointment

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• The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. 

  R.K. Narayan

  Intelligent, Men, Differences

  R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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