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“Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“I remember him saying, in the dark, cramped stockroom with my back against a wooden crate, "You have this power over me."
He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault.
And I believed him.
Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
He'd convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault.
And I believed him.
Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court."
"And why is that?"
"Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.”
― Academ's Fury
The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court."
"And why is that?"
"Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.”
― Academ's Fury
“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.”
― This Book Is Full of Spiders
― This Book Is Full of Spiders
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a new and dangerous thought, without any break. If you succeed in this, the business is done. The reader will not forget - the new words will plague and torment him until he has accepted them.”
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“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.”
― The Little Voice
― The Little Voice
“I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.”
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“Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way.
—Best Thing”
― Theories of Everything
—Best Thing”
― Theories of Everything
“I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!”
― The Rough Riders
― The Rough Riders
“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“I have to admit, it's more difficult than I thought," says John.
"What is?" asks Aisha.
"Finding an answer to Bertrand Russell's question."
"Who?" asks Tony.
"A dead English philosopher," says Aisha. "He said: the question today is how one can convince humanity to consent to their own survival.”
― QualityLand
"What is?" asks Aisha.
"Finding an answer to Bertrand Russell's question."
"Who?" asks Tony.
"A dead English philosopher," says Aisha. "He said: the question today is how one can convince humanity to consent to their own survival.”
― QualityLand
“it is not necessary to convince anyone of anything..... and the words do not matter much. it is the knowledge and experience that is transcendent.”
― Random Molecular Mirroring
― Random Molecular Mirroring
“It's so difficult, this whole spending hours everyday convincing yourself that tomorrow will be better.”
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“Although it might state otherwise, I don’t think that the world finds anything compelling that’s always shifting to adjust to wherever the world’s going. I think that what the world finds compelling is something so indisputably enthralling that the world is always shifting to adjust to it. And the only thing that I know that has both the power and the character to be that enthralling is God.”
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“If you’re going to convince people they can do the impossible, you have to add in a bit of truth. It makes you sound more convincing.”
― Omega from the Ocean
― Omega from the Ocean
“Lies can be presented in such a convincing way that the subsequent belief creates the truth from a lie.”
― Life Is A Circus
― Life Is A Circus
“If I'd known that insulting and threatening you would convince others of our agreement, I would've pulled a knife on you this morning in the banquet hall.”
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“You,' he murmured, his voice sultry and thick. 'You were quite convincing.'
'So were you,' I said, a bit breathlessly.
'I know. I'm very skilled at pretending.”
― A Shadow in the Ember
'So were you,' I said, a bit breathlessly.
'I know. I'm very skilled at pretending.”
― A Shadow in the Ember
“Without questioning, there is no understanding. Without understanding, there is no convincing. Without convincing, there is merely a robot obeying direct commands of do this and don't do that.”
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“Our father had a gift for convincing people to follow him into the wilderness, a quality that made him both dangerous and magical. He spent the whole of his adult life in Florida and that is how I have come to think of this place too, as equal parts danger and magic.”
― State of Paradise
― State of Paradise
“…as she cycled home Shelley reflected that in all her years at Birnam Wood she had never quite mastered the skill of knowing in every individual circumstance whether to overplay or underplay her expertise. It was something that Mira seemed to know instinctively—that a demonstrated competency reassured some people and aggravated others; she could pitch herself at exactly the right point between whimsical amateur and winsome entrepreneur, a performance that, when Shelley tried it, only seemed to make it much less likely that the person she was talking to would want to give her things for free.”
― Birnam Wood
― Birnam Wood
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