#persuaded

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#army #awaken #commerce #delusion #destruction

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

#australia #before #cambridge #could #eighteen

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#create #fashion #front #go #huge

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#assuming #bush #central #chief #competitor

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. ↗

— Tori Amos

#go #i #knew #me #mother

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#persuaded #something #you

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cannot #nothing #persuaded #say #who

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#in the end #people #persuaded #say #understand

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#beginning #courage #fun #group #had

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. ↗

— Jan Morris

#adventure #become #commodity #either #into