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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
“Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn’t necessarily mean I have a target.”
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“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
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