persuasiveness Quotes

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

“I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.”

“It doesn’t seem far-fetched to speculate that because Hall had talked Hansen into coming back to Everest, it would have been especially hard for him to deny Hansen the summit a second time.”

“When in his study pent the whole year through, Man views the world, as through an optic glass, On a chance holiday, and scarcely then, How by persuasion can he govern men?”

“A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.”

“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”

Persuaded, Monday agrees to relinquish control of the key, which is shaped like the minute hand of an old clock, although he quickly becomes suspicious of Sneezer, who apparently never showed much intelligence before. Sneezer and Mister Monday then fight and disappear in a flash of light.