Convincing famous quotes

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#History #Events #Convincing

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
-- Clifford Geertz

#Hard Times #Students #Convincing

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!
-- Colin Baker

#Convincing

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Gravity #Convincing

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.
-- Elliott Smith

#Thinking #People #Convincing

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.
-- George Jean Nathan

#Men #Illusion #Convincing

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing
-- Guy Pearce

#Challenges #Convincing

Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.
-- Ian Maclaren

#Jesus #Miracle #Convincing

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....
-- Jacob M. Appel

#Dream #Used #Convincing

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
-- Jenny Eclair

#Actresses #Punk #Convincing

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
-- John Henry Patterson

#Trying #Convincing #Convince

Conduct is more convincing than language.
-- John Woolman

#Language #Convincing

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.
-- Josh Hartnett

#Character #Sides #Convincing

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
-- Laurence Olivier

#Lying #Acting #Convincing

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Conviction #Convincing #Convince

Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.
-- Maria V. Snyder

#Heart #Easy #Convincing

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
-- Mary Astell

#Heart #Mind #Convincing

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports #Believe #Convincing

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Imitation #Substitutes #Convincing

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
-- Shane Claiborne

#Prayer #Want #Convincing

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
-- Stephen Hawking

#Believe #Natural #Convincing

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
-- Thomas Love Peacock

#Going Away #Convincing #Audience

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.
-- Gene Brown

#Kids #Raising Kids #Convincing