Compelling Quotes

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

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere. — Jojo Moyes

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

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter. — Lyle Lovett

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

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

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer

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

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure. — John Grisham

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

It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story. — Jessica Abel

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

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks

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

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me. — Pete Cashmore

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

When you can learn to go along for the ride, ordinary moments become compelling. — David Cain

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

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. — Laura Linney

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

Create a compelling service vision. When people want to, they will. — Ron Kaufman

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

Controlling others - winning - is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else. — Martha Stout

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

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

Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt. — Mary Balogh

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

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

Highly readable, compelling analysis of America's current political crises — Craig Barnes

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling. — Ruzwana Bashir

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story. — Jay Asher