Persuaded Quotes

You don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going broke. Americans weren't persuaded by his solution. So we got a crisis without a solution. - Thomas Mann (political Analyst)

Will not be adopted by Congress this year, nor next year, nor any time soon until a substantial majority of Americans are persuaded that such a consequential action is as vitally important and necessary as the proponents feel it is today. - John McCain

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation. - Marcus Aurelius

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women. - Louisa May Alcott

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

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. - John Bunyan

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change. - John Wilhelm

We want to do this ourselves in the most comfortable setting we can think of - to be in each moment together and not be persuaded by a hospital's agenda. - Aaron Wolf

We know of four Japanese biomedical companies right now that are using San Antonio clinical facilities for advanced testing... Those companies need to be persuaded not just to test here but ... to also locate new facilities here. That has to be a priority. - Henry Cisneros

We human girls can be persuaded to do ANYTHING. Just yesterday I said I would never ever wear a tampon, and, well what do you know?! Today I'm wearing one. - Jeanie Wilding