Persuasions People Quotes & Sayings

People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society. — Tipper Gore

There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder. — Robert M. Edsel

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. — Billy Graham

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, Thirty-five children is enough for any woman. — Gracie Allen

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men. — Napoleon Hill

People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together. — Ben Affleck

A sermon expands to fill the time allotted to complete. it — Peggy Noonan

Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled. — Prem Rawat

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. — Stephen Mangan

Hierarchies must rise and conglomerate as they extend over fewer and larger corporations. A seat in a high-rise job is the most coveted and contested product of expanding industry. The lack of schooling, compounded with sex, color, and peculiar persuasions, now keeps most people down. Minorities organized by women, or blacks, or the unorthodox succeed at best in getting some of their members through school and into an expensive job. They claim victory when they get equal pay for equal rank. Paradoxically, these movements strengthen the idea that unequal graded work is necessary and that high-rise hierarchies are necessary to produce what an egalitarian society needs. If properly schooled, the black porter will blame himself for not being a black lawyer. At the same time, schooling generates a new intensity of frustration which ultimately can act as social dynamite. 6 — Ivan Illich

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party. — Ben Carson

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions. — Natalie Merchant

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. — Francis Arinze

All work and no play will make you sad and grey! — Habeeb Akande

It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually. — Sufjan Stevens

It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it. — Chuck Baldwin

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions. — David H. Koch