New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble.… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and… — David Copy Share Image
I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Never beg someone to love or be with you, because when you do, you give them the power to use and walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this… — Gavid Hood Copy Share Image
“So my advice is this—don’t look for proofs. Don’t bother with them at all. They are never sufficient to the question, and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I looked back at the previous 10 years and realized I had spent 10 years trying to convince kids to behave Christianly… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
“Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Reseph tried to convince one of my vamps to slip an aphrodisiac into my drink." "Ares is quite fond of the orc-weed,"… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you… — David Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image