Convincing Quotes

312 Convincing quotes by 276 unique authors

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely… — John Yarmuth
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package. — Tina Brown
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should… — Edmund White
The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness,… — Leonard Mlodinow
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always… — Orhan Pamuk
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it… — Garry Disher
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on… — Ben Nelson
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. — Raymond Williams
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender… — Joichi Ito
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and… — Max Planck
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the… — Laurence Tribe
It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game. — Tim Page
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. — F. Murray Abraham
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land… — Amos Oz
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach… — Nancy Kerrigan
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state… — Frank Murphy
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. — Scott Brooks
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. — Jim Davis
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in… — Tom Shales
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement. — Niall Ferguson
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether… — Ian Stewart
What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is… — Lawrence Eagleburger
The hardest part of saying I Love You is taking three words that have been said millions of times before, and convincing someone that you… — MJ Korvan
Wise offer a bitter medicine for a short time for a permanent cure to long standing problem. Fools stand united in convincing the people that… — Mahesh Srinivasan

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