Convert Quotes
285 quotes by 240 authors
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It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in…
— Elon Musk
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
— Ben Okri
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May…
— Lester B. Pearson
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
— Hans Selye
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Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane…
— Kevin Smith
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In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam -…
— Cat Stevens
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need…
— Kanye West
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The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power.…
— Henry B. Eyring
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In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like…
— Thomas Paine
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving…
— Booker T. Washington
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That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can…
— Mark Steyn
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I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding…
— David Sedaris
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Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert…
— Swami Vivekananda
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During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and…
— Vladimir Lenin
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