It's hard to know what is the right decision when we are full of temptation but if we have God in our… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
My persuasion can build a nation. Endless power, our love we can devour. You'll do anything for me. — Beyonce Copy Share Image
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and… — Nicholas Boothman Copy Share Image
There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But some of it (evangelistic persuasion) is going to come through service. The deficit that many Christians face is that people look… — Skip Vaccarello Copy Share Image
I believe that feminists of the more aggressive persuasion are frustrated women unable to find the proper male leadership. If a woman… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“People’s initial exposure to your message will mold their perception for the remainder of your message. In order to maximize your persuasion,… — Nick Kolenda Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents…Anybody who has to live with the people, who… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off… — Santiago Durango Copy Share Image
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Louise Bay Copy Share Image
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably -… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image