Convincing Quotes
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.
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Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.
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When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
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My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
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I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!
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It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.
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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
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The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right.
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The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.
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It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
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Sometimes you're talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and trust that the editors and the animators are going to make it all convincing to the audience. You have to pull a lot from within.
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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.
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So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
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It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.
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Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
