The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time… — Raul Esparza Copy Share Image
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them. — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul,… — Manuel II Palaiologos Copy Share Image
There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the best man for a goal if we needed one. — Ally McCoist Copy Share Image
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
“It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, you’re going… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince,… — Dominique de Villepin Copy Share Image
