(92 quotes found)
“artificially too high as an indirect incentive to persuade advertisers to buy the 30s instead.”
David Miller
“If the FBI can persuade a court that there is probable cause that there are stolen records in that collection, then they should go to court. They cannot bully or attempt to intimidate the family or the university into surrendering private records.”
Steven Aftergood
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
Winston Churchill
“There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.”
Mark Twain
“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
“We have done everything possible to persuade the player to stay but there is little point in keeping a player when he is so determined to leave. We also have to take account of the effect on all the other players at the club who are committed to us and what we are trying to achieve here.”
Richard Murray
“I'm not persuaded by the argument that a single price deters piracy.”
Eric Nicoli
“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
“Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian”
Roger Fry