Con Quotes - page 4

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other. (Fred Dibnah)
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him. View quote
J. B. Smoove
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. View quote
James Wolcott
I don't eat Puerto Rican food in L.A. because it's just too much, too addicting, but I know how to cook, so I can easily make it. I just choose not to because you never stop! I think my favorite would be pollo guisado con arroz blanco y habichuelas. I love tostones, I love maduros! I can eat rice and beans all day long! View quote
Justina Machado
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. View quote
Laura Linney
Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape. View quote
M. C. Gainey
I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing. View quote
Mark Sheppard
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers. View quote
Gary Wolf
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. View quote
Paul Thomas Anderson
You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together. View quote
Scott Aukerman
I love L.A. - don't get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don't eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I'm a really big fan of Latino food. I want to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo. (Tristan Wilds)
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? View quote
Will Harvey
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. View quote
James Bovard
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. View quote
Arturo Toscanini
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! View quote
Tom Peters
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. View quote
Tom Peters
Human needs to go through the abyss of pains and loss, because the more we suffer-the better. Con người cần phải được đau khổ, bởi có đau khổ mới hiểu được giá trị của hạnh phúc. View quote
Linh Nga
I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable. View quote
Steve Martin
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion. View quote
Barbara Bush
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today. (Arundhati Roy)
I've always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists. View quote
Donald Trump
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable. View quote
Murray Rothbard
Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in a minute that it's all a great con. He makes Sarah Palin look reasonable and steady. View quote
Bill Bryson
Suppose rather than passing the plate in church, they get a radio show and pass the plate and half a million listeners donate. Isn't that going to convince a preacher that it's all true? Wealth comes to the faithful, that's the message they're going to take. An' I never yet met a con man who wasn't the better at the job for believing his own spiel. View quote
Charles Stross