A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Melanie still grieves for Jared," she stated. I felt my head nod without willing the action. "You grieve for him." I closed… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer Copy Share Image
The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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