“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Moscow hopes to use energy as a trump card to persuade the Western leaders that it's a powerful player to reckon with.”
Yevgeny Volk
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
