#appeal

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#boy #choice #found #had #history

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#appealing #believe #camera #effort #expected

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #appeals #being #being honest #even

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#behalf #co-operation #country #date #early

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. ↗

— Walter Koenig

#appealing #certainly #concept #engagement #like

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#beautiful #coming #kind #lyrics #melody

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#arms #clear #decisive #defend #made

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#appealing #around #boom #creating #cuts

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#agencies #appeal #broadening #civil #compensation

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#appeal #argument #cannot #change #each