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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Seneca

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Benjamin Franklin

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli

They need food more than anything else. We just have to be patient because these people need our help. We are trying to persuade the authorities to listen to us.

Ron Steele

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Muriel Spark

Standing still is not an option. We are going to go after those properties and we are going to attempt to persuade others in labor, management and the investment community to join us.

Linda Foley

It was built to persuade young people that first-rate science can happen here and that we in Africa can experience the universe with the best of them.

David Laney

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese

I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second occasion, I met him to try and persuade him to allow Hans Blix and U.N. inspectors back into country.

George Galloway

The bottom line is this -- when it comes to helping Australians on the ground, the Australian government has failed miserably to persuade its closest friend and ally, the United States government, to allow Australian consular officials access to help our own people.

Kevin Rudd

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

Doris Lessing

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

Roger Angell

She is not in the form at all. We tried to persuade her to give up all-around but she insisted to give it a try.

Lu Shanzhen

I'm here to persuade you, beyond a doubt ... who murdered Danielle van Dam.

Jeff Dusek

Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006.

Charles Franklin

He'll seek out the decision makers, present our credentials and persuade them to work with us on their project.

John Mahon

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Hugh Gaitskell

In the past, advertising has for the most part been about three things -- to inform, to persuade, and to remind.

Joseph Jaffe

The provincial government is deeply involved in these negotiations, but behind the scenes. They do have the financial clout to persuade this employer to return and face the music instead of hiding in cyberspace.

Connie Credico

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

Wendie Malick

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

Adrian Anderson

The problem is that the villagers leave their houses only at the last moment when the waters start flooding in. We really have to persuade them to leave earlier.

Sushil Kumar

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Dean Inge

This is the definitive day, and if Al Gore cannot persuade the Florida Supreme Court so that both the certification and the Florida Legislature (are) on the same side of this ledger, then this battle is over.

Robert Torricelli

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Kurt Vonnegut

The passions are the only orators that always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The last thing my client wants to do is persuade this court to release him and then blow the whole thing off.

Kathryn Benfield

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Richard Harris

She will have to persuade her caucus to be quite brutal but that's the price they will have to pay to stay in power.

Nigel Roberts

But Weil is hardly an objective expert on supplements. The more supplements Weil can persuade consumers to buy, the more he benefits. Consumers should bear that in mind when they listen to his advice.

David Schardt

The economic situation is difficult for all Lebanese. Many are finding it hard to get a job ? so how do we persuade a prostitute to stop work?

Rania Mansour

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

That's really what helped persuade me that I really have no business in a race like that. I have friends on all sides.

Robert Wexler

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It was a big deal to persuade them to come to Florida.

Larry Pendleton

I could never find out anything about Liszt's teaching methods from Rosenthal, except that it was difficult to persuade Liszt to leave the cafe and go back to the studio for a lesson.

Charles Rosen

We are trying to persuade them to be fiscally responsible. We get the least amount of return on this.

Steve Lundgren

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Calvin Trillin

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Antonin Scalia

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

William James

I attended the Aug. 15 hearing (on the merger) and as a result of being present at that hearing I became really agitated and committed to the process of trying to persuade the city council that they need to listen to what the citizens of the community have to say.

Peggy Page

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Leo Szilard

A door-to-door campaign will be started very soon to persuade the people not to vote.

Jhal Nath Khanal

All you ever hear about are cases where juries award $3 million, (but) those are very few and far between. I have been involved in this for over 20 years, and juries are very difficult to persuade to do anything other than what the evidence shows. They are not in the back room looking to give people a blank check.

Mark Krueger

The question is, can he persuade others, particularly Republicans, that this is a good idea?

Terry Christensen

We can't be optimistic that we can persuade Beijing to change their stance. The future will be difficult.

Albert Ho

We are not taking positions on these issues. Our goal is to educate, not persuade.

Kent Gardner

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.

Richard Hooker

I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission.

Caspar W. Weinberger

The point of this campaign was not necessarily to persuade the public that global warming isn't happening. It was to persuade the public that there is this state of confusion.

Ross Gelbspan

Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?

Paul Vincent

There are great problems with irrigation. We must persuade our farmers to go to less extensive crops. It's a question of changing the whole agricultural method.

Michel Rocard

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

E. F. Schumacher

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

Zhang Ziyi