Con Quotes

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I love Comic Con.

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

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?

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

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.