Quotes About Appeal

A Bargain's Not A Bargain If Nobody Likes It.

The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas

The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death. Other

Generalmente, es mejor caer en gracia que ser gracioso.

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

Eighth is yet another new phenomenon: the appeal of public-square crossover novels.

A fifth and more cynical factor is a selective appeal to ancient evidence that highlights features in line with a modern ideological concern at the expense of being fair about the complexity of the ancient evidence.

For this reason, it is to be expected that one or more nation-states will undertake covert action to subvert the appeal of transience. Travel could be effectively discouraged by biological warfare, such as the outbreak of a deadly epidemic. This could not only discourage the desire to travel, it could also give jurisdictions throughout the globe an excuse to seal their borders and limit immigration.

Please, Tommy, Please.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it [charm], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

She observed wisely of her cinema alter ego: "Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

She wondered how a guy like Drayton could generate a turnout this big and enthusiastic. There was something about him a certain type of person loved, it seemed. She just couldn't see it.

Nearly two more years would pass before appellate Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann announced his verdict, declaring them innocent upon appeal—under Italian law an even more forceful verdict than not guilty because it means exoneration and an absence of any compelling evidence at all.

Poison has a certain appeal … It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.

Yet he had a certain charm of manner, and I fancied that, if one really knew him well, one could have a deep affection for him.

Behind the whimsicality there was something earnest in his appeal. He had come to think very highly of the mental powers of this frail old-fashioned maiden lady. He looked across at her with something very like hope in his eyes.

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.