Unconvinced Quotes

#1. The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

Thiruman Archunan

#2. I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

Tony Abbott

#3. New Crobuzon was a city unconvinced by gravity.

China Mieville

#4. Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

Charles Stross

#5. Orange?" He seems unconvinced.
"Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say.
"At least, that's what you told me once.

Suzanne Collins

#6. Braden, I don't want anything to happen between us."
He raised his eyebrow, clearly unconvinced.
"Tell that to your damp knickers, babe.

Samantha Young

#7. The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

Donald Barnhouse

#8. Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.

William Lane Craig

#9. Sir Trevor Fitzwilliam, baronet, of Blackcliff Hall," he said, "at your service. And you would be?"
"Unconvinced," Gwen said.

Regina Scott

#10. Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

Fareed Zakaria

#11. This is the kind of thing that you wonder about when you make things up for a living. I remain unconvinced that it is the kind of activity that is a fit occupation for an adult, but it's too late now: I seem to have a career that I enjoy which doesn't involve getting up too early in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

#12. They were unconvinced of the power of giants.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

Robert Gottlieb

#14. Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart the news in any respectful fashion - Amelia

Tessa Dare

#15. Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

John McCarthy

#16. The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

#17. My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.

David Doubilet

#18. We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.

Phil Taylor

#19. You want to live," he told his reflection. His reflection looked unconvinced.

V.E Schwab

#20. I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters

Joan Didion

#21. I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#22. The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

J.B. Priestley

#23. Not - please understand me - that I was convinced that I had made a mistake; no, I was merely unconvinced that I had not made a mistake. I was, in other words, confused.

Mohsin Hamid

#24. To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

Ivan Illich

#25. In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

Steve Erickson

#26. Understanding of our fellow human beings ... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein

#27. Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Don DeLillo

#28. I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

Eve Hewson

#29. It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

Steve Martin

#30. Trust, of necessity, is discretionary when dealing with vampyres." -- The Slayer Prince

Elizabeth Brockie

#31. I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

Douglas Booth

#32. If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

James Hogg