Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Scottish Proverbs

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Homer

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

John Calvin

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Herodotus

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.