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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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“Given these differences between the sexes, the sexual revolution was the biggest joke men ever played on women. By convincing them that the old rules didn’t apply and that two could play the predator game, men enticed women to do what men have always wanted women to do. But what a price was paid for the new “freedom.” And predictably, women were the ones who got stuck with the bill.”
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.”
― The Little Voice
― The Little Voice
“Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.”
― Ruth
― Ruth
“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
“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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