| persuade |  He could not persuade her coming to the party tonight.[bak:persuade] |
|  Onu bu geceki partiye gelmeye ikna edemedi. |
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| Abraham Lincoln | Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln |
| Adrienne Rich | They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
Adrienne Rich |
| Alan Cranston | I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Alan Cranston |
| Alan Dundes | Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Alan Dundes |
| Antonin Scalia | If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
Antonin Scalia |
| audience | Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
Ian Anderson
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| Bo Bennett | I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett |
| Branch Rickey | Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
Branch Rickey |
| Calvin Trillin | 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 |
| Charles Darwin | I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin |
| Charles Schumer | Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
Charles Schumer |
| Chauncey Wright | Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
Chauncey Wright |
| David Ogilvy | I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy |
| Dean Inge | It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
Dean Inge |
| Dean Rusk | One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Dean Rusk |
| Dean Rusk | The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk |
| Donald Rumsfeld | In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld |
| Donald Sutherland | No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
Donald Sutherland |
| Doris Lessing | There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing |
