Compelling Quotes

434 quotes by 400 authors

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to… — John Stuart Mill
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. — Jack Nicholson
The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals. We're Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else. That is a compelling argument.… — Bill O'Reilly
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion. — Richard Bach
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the… — Michael Eric Dyson
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. — Stephen Jay Gould
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather… — Paul Davies
It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war. What real difference… — Tulsi Gabbard
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time. — Dave Barry
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. — Washington Gladden
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to… — Walter E. Williams
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. — Dawn Fraser
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams

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