Convincing Quotes · Page 8

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

— Lord Byron

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

— Robert Carlyle

“To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail." -Rayner Unwin”

— Jeff Shanley

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

— John Henry Patterson

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

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves…

— Shane Claiborne

“convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.”

— Jane Austen

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought,…

— Ursula Burns

What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things…

— Jeffrey Rosen

It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of…

— Kofi Annan

Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for…

— Frank Wilczek

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you…

— Lawrence Halprin

If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look…

— Michel Bauwens

When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans.…

— Leonard Koppett

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover…

— David Biespiel

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there…

— Michael Hastings

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and…

— C. S. Lewis

Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.…

— Tim Kaine

In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism…

— Douglas MacArthur

There is a difference between the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Cornelius received the Holy Ghost before he…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Wow," I said, since it was all I could think of to say. "Wow. That's some outfit." When you've got a big…

— Charlaine Harris

“...personal experiences are probably the most convincing reason to believe for any individual who has had them.”

— Lewis N. Roe

Convincing adversaries that they cannot achieve quick and decisive wins deters wars.

— John Mearsheimer

“The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.”

— David Salle

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

— Ray Kurzweil

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

— Clive Owen

“He's a vampire." I added. You know. In case Ty thought he was a really convincing vamposeur.”

— Justine Larbalestier

“What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation…

— Eva Gutowski

“When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be…

— Jane Austen

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

— Jon Niccum

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.

— Paul Begala

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

— Warren Farrell

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

— Gaston Bachelard

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

— Thomas Carlyle

“or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

— Jacques Lacan