Convince Me Quotes

#1. If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

David G. McAfee

#3. You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#4. I had my own test, better than Turing's: when a computer could genuinely convince me that it wanted to commit suicide.

Ken Wilber

#5. Centuries ago, you told me that you were born for me, and I for you. You told me you'd convince me of that one day. You have." Through his caring. And his patience and generosity. His selfless protection. "Damn

Kresley Cole

#6. The heart swellings convince me of the folly of those who dare to think that any new ties can weaken the first and best of nature.

Stephanie Dray

#7. All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.

Edwin A. Abbott

#8. I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

Laurence Sterne

#9. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Wilfred Grenfell

#10. When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

Sydney Smith

#11. What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself.

Martina Navratilova

#12. If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#13. I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

Fred Upton

#14. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

Haruki Murakami

#15. The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.

Cheryl Strayed

#16. Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.

Deion Sanders

#17. She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.

Mike Gayle

#18. I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

Gerard Way

#19. Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.

Sergio Chejfec

#20. I would have said, "Why do you have to use victims to illustrate your point? Why can't you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you're proposing is the right solution for America?

Ben Shapiro

#21. Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy

Ken Kesey

#22. It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#23. You have never
had to steal
my breath,
or take it away,
somehow
you have always
managed to convince me
to hand it over
freely.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#24. 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

#25. First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

Mads Mikkelsen

#26. I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

Abigail Adams

#27. I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

Garry Shandling

#28. You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede.

Glenn Beck

#29. Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"
"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Cassandra Clare

#30. Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

Indira Gandhi

#31. I don't want you to explain. I want you to convince me I'm wrong. Or admit I'm right.

Chris Pavone

#32. That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.

Susan Mallery

#33. If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

Kate Morton

#34. Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

Sam Childers

#35. You can show black is white by argument,' said Filby, 'but you will never convince me.

H.G.Wells

#36. I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

Pieter Zeeman

#37. Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.

Seanan McGuire

#38. The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

Adele

#39. Why take the time to convince me? If I disagree you could simply kill me, take Fadwa, and do whatever you like." Ibn Malik raised an eyebrow. "True. But I prefer reason and agreement. Allies are much more useful than bodies.

Helene Wecker

#40. I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Joshua Lederberg

#41. After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

Josh Radnor

#42. You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

Hans Hofmann

#43. I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I'm not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes. My Yes is final.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#44. Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.

Connie Rose Porter

#45. When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Ernestine Rose

#46. Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

Barbara Warren

#47. All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

Albert Pierrepoint

#48. She is trying to convince me that she never does this and is not that type of girl. It was difficult for me to understand. Her enunciation wasn't very good with my dick in her mouth.

Tucker Max

#49. What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie?

Cassandra Clare

#50. I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.

Simon Sinek

#51. Convince me not to hate you because ... because hating you is the end of me.

Elizabeth Finn

#52. Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.

Erin Brockovich

#53. Call me a 'hopeless romantic'? I'm a romantic, but I'm not hopeless. I know there are good people out there; and that at least one of them is right for me. I won't let you convince me to settle for less.

Steve Maraboli

#54. No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true.

Ken Ham

#55. You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Carlos Ghosn

#56. She's an evil vixen. I close my eyes and squeeze my forehead, trying to figure out how I just lost complete control of myself simply because I was kissing her. I think of all the lies that were just passing through my head as my dick tried to convince me she was actually a decent person.

Colleen Hoover

#57. Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

Grace Slick

#58. Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Rick Santorum

#59. Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Thomas Sowell

#60. I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

Ben Bailey

#61. My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

Khalil Gibran

#62. CAPM pioneer Bill Sharpe remarked, "I have concluded that I may never see an empirical result that will convince me that it disconfirms any theory," which reiterated Fischer Black's (1993) feeling, "I find theory to be far more powerful than data.

Eric G. Falkenstein

#63. If these artist were trying to convince me that the pursuit of love in the postdigital age was more exciting, more mysterious, more ... . well, everything love should be, they'd failed.

Kate Klise

#64. Conservatives: Self-hating moral relativists, unless you can convince me that an intellectual class that publicly praises family values but privately engages in sodomy, coke and trophy wives is more aptly described in some other way.

John Scalzi

#65. I feel like you're trying to convince me that we don't need condoms, but fuck that. If you impregnate me, I'm going to devour " you like a praying mantis." I pin Zeph against the wall and kiss her hard, because her threatening to kill or mutilate me is always so hot.

Gisele Walko

#66. One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

Carrie Fisher

#67. Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you."
"Because any other female would!

Kresley Cole

#68. Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

Rachel Caine

#69. I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

Jay Baruchel

#70. You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

David Gemmell

#71. I'm not a coward." He tries to convince me, as if I'd already called him the name. "It wasn't the fear of death that drove me ... it was captivity. Like you, I cannot be a spirit contained. I must be free. You understand, don't you?

A.G. Howard

#72. The department shrink spent weeks trying to convince me I was deeply traumatized, but eventually he had to give up, admit I was fine (sort of regretfully; he doesn't get a lot of stabbed cops to play with, I think he was hoping I would have some kind of fancy complex) and let me go back to work.

Tana French

#73. You will never convince me to betray my master!-Starkiller

Sean Williams

#74. For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

Ryan Adams

#75. I am not angry. I am just disappointed that, once again, a hotel has tried to convince me it will move heaven and earth to ensure I am comfortable when, in reality, it won't even pass me the coffee pot!

Richard Quest

#76. No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.

Timothy F. Cahill

#77. Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Johan Cruyff

#78. Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

Suzanne Collins

#79. You know, I always knew I was a piece of shit
a real fucking asshole. But you know what else? You were always there to convince me I was right.

Elizabeth Finn

#80. You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

Ashly Lorenzana

#81. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Isaac Newton

#82. Calm down, Ephraim. You seem really certain of what's possible and what's impossible, for a guy who's trying to convince me he has a magic wishing coin.

E.C. Myers

#83. Not that kind of proof, Kyber. Come on, Buck Rogers got a ride in a flying car, and all I get is a slide show and a history lesson? It's going to take more than this to convince me that I slept for almost two centuries.

Susan Grant

#84. Convince is for thought; persuade is for action. You couldn't convince me that taping my horrible old-lady voice was a good idea, but you persuaded me to do it anyway, didn't you, you little dickens?

Monica Wood

#85. The night life draws me in like a moth to a flame and not even fear could convince me to not walk amongst the giants that line the streets.

Z.L. Arkadie

#86. His eyes stayed trained on me, unblinking. "Fine." Convince me you don't want me like I want you.

Nicole Williams

#87. If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.

Joseph Bates

#88. The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.

Wilkie Collins

#89. If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

Anne Hutchinson

#90. Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Henry David Thoreau

#91. I give him a skeptical look. "You want to show me your dick?"
"If it'll help convince you." He drains the last drops of his Scotch and stands up. "Come on, let's go.

Kendall Ryan

#92. If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?

Patricia Briggs

#93. All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Wm. Paul Young

#94. I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles and I've also sold over two and a half million albums. I shouldn't have to convince people that I'm credible, but I'm glad people are now taking me more seriously.

Olly Murs

#95. You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

Daniel Franzese

#96. Maybe I can convince you to kiss me again. I'm right here, honey. Come get me.

Sarina Bowen

#97. 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

#98. I have better things to do."
"Like what?"
He opens one eye and looks at me. "Like convince a stubborn girl to admit she's madly in love with me.

Susan Ee

#99. She's my purpose and we're going to save each other. We're going to save everyone. And then I'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. With me.

Kendare Blake

#100. Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one.

Jane Austen