Quotes of: Convinces Keyword

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

A Habit of Resistance

Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn’t join the Army. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Heart of a Soldier

Following a meeting with , Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that was deeply religious.

Hitler

Word of mouth—it’s more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

Confidence; Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise.

Single Dad Laughing

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

Magic Slays

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

The Lover's Dictionary

I’m a logician. No matter how wrong I am, I can always convince myself I am right.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.

Paris Letters

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Prime of Life

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

The Woman Destroyed

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

Garth Ennis

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Jim Webb