#persuaded

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

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

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

— James Russell Lowell

#cannot #nothing #persuaded #say #who

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

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#i #make #me #music #one time

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

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

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there. ↗

— Robert Klein

#difference #drama #drama school #father #go

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#become #been #co-operation #could #employer