Convincing Quotes

312 Convincing quotes by 276 unique authors

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic. — J. D. Greear
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in… — Cathleen Schine
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life. — Rick Danko
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze… — Juliet Marillier
An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of… — Unknown Author
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification… — Thomas Perry
Conduct is more convincing than language. — John Woolman
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining… — Oliver Goldsmith
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. — Jon Niccum
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty… — Kofi Annan
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. — Thomas Jefferson
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like,… — Anne Carson
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. — Bonnie Friedman
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good… — Edward Mazria
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence… — Robert S. Mendelsohn
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you… — Fredric Brown
What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make it all the… — Beth Moore
I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.... — Jacob M. Appel
Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about… — Genevieve Nnaji
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or… — Jay McInerney

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