Convincing Quotes
312 Convincing quotes by 276 unique authors
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Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarations… Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.
— Suzanne Collins
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And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The…
— Douglas Adams
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That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
— Lord Byron
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Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.
— David Wong
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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
Who Wrote These Convincing Quotes
276 authors contributed a total of 312 Convincing Quotes, led by these top contributors: