Best Convincing Qoutes
312 Convincing quotes by 276 unique authors
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And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.
— Elizabeth Hay
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We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we…
— Neal Shusterman
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There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing…
— David Levithan
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She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never…
— Gail Carriger
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He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself…
— Jodi Picoult
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I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents…
— Guy Debord
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather…
— Karl Popper
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Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail…
— Barry Lyga
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.
— Maria V. Snyder
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone
— Paulo Coelho
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I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.
— Miranda July
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Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn.…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.
— Mary Wigman
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
— A J P Taylor
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Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more…
— Francis Collins
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At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very…
— Geoffrey Canada
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I…
— Ursula Burns
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The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the Holy Ghost. The…
— David A. Bednar
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Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us…
— Richard Dawkins
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