“He told me to go wherever I felt comfortable, ... He didn't try to persuade me. He told me to follow my heart.”
Bruce Johnson
“He told me that he hoped that he could persuade me to win his vote over. And I said I hoped he could too, because we'd all prefer a harmonious process,”
Chuck Schumer
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“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
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it”
James Russell Lowell