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love is the biggest con of all — Ally Carter

I'll give you the moon and the stars, and a city to go along with it. — Con Template

Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked. — Thomas Boston

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. — Ken Kesey

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. — Christopher Hitchens

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

There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do. — Tegan Quin

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. — Timothy Noah

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable — Murray Rothbard

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

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world ... then tomorrow would be invented every day. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The true artist can only labor con amore. — Victor Hugo

Tell me, Choi Yoori ... are your lips as soft as they look? — Con Template

Ever notice how many expressions carry over from queers to con men? Like 'raise,' letting someone know you are in the same line? — William S. Burroughs

I'll give you the moon and the stars, Princess ... and maybe a city to go along with it. — Con Template

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. — Ally Carter

From the Latin, con clavis: 'with a key'. — Robert Harris

Comic-Con is a bizarre world. It's wonderful. It's nice, feeling the love. Everywhere you walk, you feel the love. — Anthony Head

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con. — Marc Blucas

She can't help it. She loves the con.
I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too. — Holly Black

You know what 'congregate' means? It's from the Latin. 'Greg' means herd. 'Con' means with. We're with our herd. — Ann Packer

A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic. — Jim Lee

Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered. — Victor J. Stenger

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short. — Ally Carter

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year. — Felicia Day

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality. — Bill Maher

I feel you in my heart,and I don't even know you. — Tegan Quin

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.
(attrib: E. Tancarville) — Dan Garfat-Pratt

Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These — Andrew Klavan

You can call me Boss though, seeing as though you're only the assistant. — Con Template

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. — Joss Whedon

It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-con dence — Robert T. Kiyosaki

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them. — Mario Puzo

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful! — Justine Larbalestier

Como se acuerda con los pajaros
la traduccion de sus idiomas?
How is the translation of their languages
Arranged with the birds? — Pablo Neruda

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre. — Peter Beard

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself. — Ally Carter

Now I was a for-real, hardened con. I felt infinitely better. Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black, page 54 — Piper Kerman

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

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant. — John Ray

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier. — Matt Smith

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin. — Isabelle Hardesty

Stop following the con artists, instead become the greatest and brightest artist ever to exist and let others follow your light instead — Yolanda De Iuliis

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed. — Evangeline Lilly

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

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

If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!? — Jon Stewart

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress? — Will Rogers

I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right. — Tegan Quin

I listened in
Yes I'm guilty of this
You should know this — Tegan Quin

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them. — William Shatner

Obamacare needs the premiums of healthier people to cover the costs of sicker people. It's a devious con that can only be described as insurance. — Stephen Colbert

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds. — Kunal Nayyar

You name the TV psychic - they're con men. — Bruno Heller

The strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful. one — Charles Bukowski

che c'entra questo con le stelle? What has this to do with the stars? — Luigi Giussani

Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy ... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting. — Erin Morgenstern

Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments. — Malti Bhojwani

I felt you in my legs
Before I even met you — Tegan Quin

Romance," said Antony. "A con so crazy that by the time the bullet's in the chamber, you don't know if you've taken someone or you've been taken. — Jeffrey Ford

Knowing the same tricks a con man knows is the best way to protect yourself from him. -Naru — Shiho Inada

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid. — Luc Sante

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real-that's why it's got the word "con" in the middle of it. — Russell Brand

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding. — Bray Wyatt

A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you. — Sara Quin

I'm capsized, staring on the edge of safe. — Tegan Quin

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything. — Holly Black

All of it. Lincoln, Taft, what they did. The H-bomb, the RAND Corporation, the king of Persia, the whole long con of it all. — Austin Grossman

With no filter, he said, I thought it would have been softer. It was kinda salty ... — Con Template

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned. — Kristen Bell

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

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. — Holly Black

The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness. — F. Sionil Jose

The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job. — Bryant McGill

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con. — Matt Bomer

I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor. — Henry James

Begging ocean please, help me drown these memories. All I need to hear is that you're not mine,you're not mine. — Tegan Quin

[Con] men have long known ... that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. — Thomas Sowell

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves. — Steve Jobs

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. — Chuck Palahniuk

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. — Mark Twain

His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history. — James S.A. Corey

Por que en las epocas oscuras
se escribe con tinta invisible?
Why in the darkest ages
do they write with invisible ink? — Pablo Neruda

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. — Timothy Noah

I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most. — Sara Quin

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. — Steve Martin

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money. — Michael Hudson

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

We all need people, Theo. It doesn't matter how we find the people who matter to us; it just matters that we hold on to them — Con Riley

Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at. — Tegan Quin

he was enjoying this - the thrill of the chase, the undercover con, the adrenaline high. — Kimberli A. Bindschatel

No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it. — Con Template

I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then. — Sara Quin

In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data. — Edgar Allan Poe

I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you. — Sara Quin

Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven't looked for Mr. Right yet. — Julie James

At a con there's one hundred percent acceptance, no ifs, ands, or buts. This is the one place where anyone can go and not be judged. — Brian Katcher