The eyes of love is myopic yet vigilant, shocking yet relaxing, persuasive but worth it. Foolish but never a wrong decider. — Edmond Druyeh Copy Share Image
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power… — John Stumpf Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character,… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that… — Ken Liu 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
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new?… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
“It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity.… — Glenn Hefley Copy Share Image
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to… — Adolf Hitler 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
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“PERSUASION TIP 9 Display confidence (either real or faked) to improve your persuasiveness. You have to believe yourself, or at least appear… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very… — Robert Kennedy 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 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
Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image