Con Quotes

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

Progress, Opposite, Pro

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
Sigourney Weaver

Life, Trust, Hurt

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
Barbara Bush

Abortion, Pro, Outspoken

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
Andrea Jung

Change, Morning, Business

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh

Yourself, Control, Cannot

I love Comic Con.
Megan Fox

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
Eric Cantona

Good, Long, Put

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Gloria Steinem

Death, Job, After

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney

School, Book, Writing

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.
Tom Peters

Success, Change, Whole

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Will Harvey

Progress, Opposite, Pro

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.
John Lithgow

Real, Artist, Actor

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
Harvey Pekar

Same, Write, Common

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
David Miliband

Put, John, Major

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
Arturo Toscanini

Men, Married, Read

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.
Mira Nair

Women, Power, Confidence

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
Paul Thomas Anderson

School, Film, Complete

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle

Time, Sexy, Job

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.
James Bovard

Change, Politics, Positive

I enjoyed retirement the right way... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
Craig Kilborn

Wine, Cheese, Red

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
Edward Burns

Down, Different, Tell

Actors are con men and con men are actors.
Edward Burns

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
Danny Aiello

Good, Father, Wanderer

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist.
Tom Metzger

Almost, Wide, Anarchist

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.
Alfred Molina

Good, Great, Successful

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
Alan Dean Foster

Time, Business, May

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
Adam Osborne

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
Bill Paxton

Men, Movies, American

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt

Love, Sports, Give

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

Love, Good, Home

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