When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and… — Nancy Kerrigan Copy Share Image
Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the American people that he's a racial unifier… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
