Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy… — John Stott Copy Share Image
When gifted with the power of persuasion, be it a blessing upon those you persuade! — Bobby Compton Copy Share Image
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or… — Henry More Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity.… — Glenn Hefley Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. — Livy Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love and attraction is all about feelings... You cannot use logic to persuade yourself into relationship... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The eyes of love is myopic yet vigilant, shocking yet relaxing, persuasive but worth it. Foolish but never a wrong decider. — Edmond Druyeh Copy Share Image
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. — William Safire Copy Share Image