A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( )
I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Elizabeth Bennet: Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony.
I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
