#persuaded

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#built #enthusiastic #first #had #him

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#come #discovered #generally #mind #others

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#consequences #direct #direct result #i #i am

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#citizens #complicit #deal #defeated #fight

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#between #big #black #civil #civil rights

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ↗

— Robert Southey

#each #friendship #lapse #lessen #other

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

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

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#books #call #children #clue #containing