Convincing Quotes

Convincing Quote of the day

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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 thought people wanted to hear me say.

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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 by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.