Persuade Quotes

344 Persuade quotes by 293 unique authors

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I… — Donatella Versace
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's… — Emma Watson
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it… — Simone Weil
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always… — Bill Watterson
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for… — Daniel Handler
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves — Confucius
But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his… — Shannon Hale
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. — Philip Roth
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that… — Orson Scott Card
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. — Kurt Vonnegut
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's… — W. Somerset Maugham
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince… — Miguel de Unamuno
Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you. — Pythagoras
And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it."… — Amy Tan
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever,… — Barack Obama
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability… — Malcolm Gladwell
I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child,… — Mother Teresa
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to… — David Foster Wallace
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so… — Rene Descartes
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind… — David Wong
I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work.… — Neil Gaiman

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