Convincing Quotes

312 Convincing quotes by 276 unique authors

I knew the beginning and the end â€“ I just had to dream up a convincing middle. — Miranda July
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
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories. — Mary Wigman
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events. — A J P Taylor
Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
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
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
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
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
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

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