Con
Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
To know; to understand; to acknowledge.
To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
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Con Quotations
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
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
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey
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
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
In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist.
Tom Metzger
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Will Harvey
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
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
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
Joe McGinniss
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
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
Actors are con men and con men are actors.
Edward Burns
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
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
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
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
Arturo Toscanini
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
Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
Arturo Toscanini
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Con Translations
con in Norwegian is lure, svindel
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