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We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
— L. Neil Smith
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.
— Paul Fry
Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.
— Bartolomeo D'Alviano
The flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout.
— Anonymous
But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.
— Ruth Reichl
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
— Sissy Spacek
A goddess if needed and a princess if persuaded.
— Swatii Chandak
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
— Leland Stanford
He nurse the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him.
— Saki
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
— Laurence Sterne
The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.
— Jalal Talabani
I am fully persuaded to pursue my passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
— Jack Canfield
Most people will not be persuaded to become Christians except in their "heart language.
— Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
— Adoniram Judson
I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
— Alexander McCall Smith
We entertain the immortals in order that they might be persuaded to help us recover the strength and unity stolen from us by death.
— Tom Robbins
I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.
— Holliday Grainger
I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.
— Bryan Stevenson
He could probably have persuaded even Cerberus to leave his post and go off in search of a few dog biscuits.
— Robert Rankin
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
— George Eliot
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
— Richard M. Nixon
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
— John Newton
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
— E.L. Doctorow
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.
— Jane Austen
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
— Marie De France
I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Blessed are those who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
— Suzanne Woods Fisher
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
— Gregory Maguire
Perceived a cart covered with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that this must be some new adventure,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.
— Thomas F. Wilson
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
For I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
— Anonymous
The family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off.
— Larry McMurtry
I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
— Mary Shelley
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
— Antoine Arnauld
You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
— Blaise Pascal
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
— Martin Luther
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
— George Washington
Persuaded, therefore, that ere long some ingenious
— Benjamin Franklin
Continue demonstrating your immaturity," the Eldest said. "Surely, I will be persuaded then.
— Will Wight
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
— William Morris Hunt
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
— Blaise Pascal
If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.
— Steven D. Levitt
You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
— Scott Westerfeld
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
— Aristotle.
Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bottom dogs have to be persuaded of the desirability of inequality.
— William Donaldson
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
— Tim Jackson
Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason
— Ilona Andrews
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
— Lord Byron
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
— Sarah Moore Grimke
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
— John Calvin
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother ...
— Hannah More
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
— L. Ron Hubbard
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
— Joanne Harris
They never could entirely control preternaturals. It's your pragmatism. Your kind cannot be persuaded by faith; pure logic must be applied.
— Gail Carriger
it is even harder to persuade people who do not wish to be persuaded.
— Steven D. Levitt
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!
— Jean De La Bruyere
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
— Walter Raleigh
People are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
— Tori Amos
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.
— Arrian
I am fully persuaded, what God's promises, He faithfully performs.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
— Mark Twain
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
— Apollonius Of Tyana
You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
— Tristan Tzara
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
— Thomas Carlyle
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I wish
our cowboy could be persuaded
to buy a horse,
that I could be invisible
until I can talk back — Thanhha Lai
our cowboy could be persuaded
to buy a horse,
that I could be invisible
until I can talk back — Thanhha Lai
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
— Robert Southey
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
— Saul Bellow
I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.
— Jude Morgan
It was the first time he'd persuaded a girl into bed by mentioning the possibility of fleas.
— Karen Chance
belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise. If
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
— George Washington
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
— Sydney J. Harris
But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
— Yannick Noah