With regard to testimony from various experts, there was pro and con. The argument was very articulately made that many provinces allow mature minors - minors capable of making the decision - to make decisions on their own treatment in very serious cases, including cancer. They are given the right to ask for medical treatment to be withheld, so long as they understand.
Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
You can either be a con or a man—you can’t be both.
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.
I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call themmyself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of themmyself as con artists.
You name the TV psychic - they're con men.
The true artist can only labor con amore.
Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.
Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like a Quaker, but when you think about it, is a week a long time to wait? To see if a former mental patient is qualified to own an Uzi? Con one, will ya Congress? It takes three weeks to get a phone!
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
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.
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
I think con man is the usual term. When somebody comes on television to tell a lot of needy people that God will send them to heaven if they send him $200, if that's not downright sociopathic, it's close.
Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.
In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams. . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.
I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
