Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious."… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.” — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God is a very persuasive creator. If God is the catalyst, there's nothing you can do about it. — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like. — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive,… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must follow my Lord. No matter what. I must renew my allegiance every morning. It is His voice I must listen… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
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