There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting? — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from… — Koki Hirota Copy Share Image
I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
