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liberals have no compelling truth, no 'good news,' to proclaim.
— Nancy Pearcey
Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
— Tom Bissell
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
— Washington Gladden
It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
— Marie Kondo
I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
— Kathryn Harrison
Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
— John F. Kerry
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
— Christopher Meloni
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
— William Styron
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi ... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
— Jensen Ackles
If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
— Andre Braugher
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
— B. Joseph Pine II
Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.
— Sharon Weil
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
— George Henry Lewes
My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.
— Babatunde Fashola
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
— Seeley James
All you can do is show people ... You tell stories that are true and compelling.
— Bruce Springsteen
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
— William Hague
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
— Allan Kaprow
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
— William Everson
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
— Shana Alexander
A leader is someone who has the capacity to create a compelling vision that takes people to a new place, and to translate that vision into action.
— Richard Wolfe
With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.'
— Marc Guggenheim
I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.
— Dinesh D'Souza
If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing.
— John Katzenbach
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Love is a very compelling argument.
— Brian Houston
We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba."
"That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed. — Alastair Reynolds
"That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed. — Alastair Reynolds
In retrospect, the highlight of dating him had been free coffee and a particularly compelling discussion on the fall of the Roman Empire.
— Richelle Mead
Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.
— Jeff Patton
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
— David Corbett
Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.
— Laurie Beth Jones
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
— Felix Frankfurter
Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being
— Margaret Floy Washburn
Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.
— Lisa Sanders
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
— James Dashner
It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
— Seth Godin
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
— Richard Bach
Love can only be found in freedom of choice. And for choice to exist, there must be an alternative to choose. Something as compelling as love.
— Ted Dekker
Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.
— Robert D. Richardson
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Ultimately the presence of other well known players is driving us to build a more compelling, innovative product.
— Josh Williams
I don't know how she feels about me, but I sort of like her. I mean, I'm sickened by her existence obviously, but I find her strangely compelling.
— Liane Moriarty
The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
— Adam Carolla
No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented.
— Anthony Trollope
As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
— Chetan Bhagat
Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.
— Moby
What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?
— Douglas Coupland
The visual of Satan isn't one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it's the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.
— Todd Stocker
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
— Paul Auster
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It was beautiful - in a terrible sort of way, of course. But still, the arrangement was perfect, compelling, beautifully bloodless.
— Jeff Lindsay
To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.
— L.R.W. Lee
Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
— Hugh MacLeod
The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
— Harold Holzer
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?
— Dee Hock
Pino was seized by something much more compelling and primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a perfect instrument of love.
— Mark T. Sullivan
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
— Olivia Wilde
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
— Ira Glass
Maybe I'm strange and perverse, but I've always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.
— Therese Doucet
Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had?
— Erica Jong
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
— Sonia Sotomayor
For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.
— Amanda Bouchet
Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with.
— David Barron
Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.
— Carol Bowman
Having a grand, bold goal was useless if you didn't have the ability to tell a compelling story about how you'd get there.
— Brent Schlender
Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.
— Nachman Of Breslov
The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
— Annie Besant
I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.
— Chris Hegedus
Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.
— Don Roff
It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.
— Michael Almereyda
I'm excited about the aging process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling
— Emma Watson
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
— Theodore Dreiser
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
— Carlton Cuse
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
— Ansel Adams
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
— Andy Stanley
History provides a compelling argument that every scientist who tinkers around with unstoppable shit needs a reliable flamethrower.
— Andrew Smith
Without a compelling vision, you will discover there is no reason to go through the pain of change.
— Brian P. Moran
The cool blade
Severs between coolness, apple-rind
Compelling a recognition. — Charles Tomlinson
Severs between coolness, apple-rind
Compelling a recognition. — Charles Tomlinson
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise ... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
— Jacques Ellul
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
— Aaron Hill
It's the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be
no depth, no substance. — A.M. Jenkins
no depth, no substance. — A.M. Jenkins
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
— Aristophanes
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
— Jon Kyl
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday.
— John Mark Reynolds