Quotes About Compelling

he kept himself and his forces well in hand the whole evening, compelling an accumulative reserve of control by that nameless inward process of gradually putting all the emotions away and turning the key upon them—a process difficult to describe, but wonderfully effective, as all men who have lived through severe trials of the inner man well understand.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be a compelling narrative that drives along and keeps people coming back week after week. So really, with any successful show you could name, there has to be a mysterious blend of both of those.

The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

So, that was King Bullet. He seems nice, in a Charlie Manson meets P. T. Barnum kind of way.

I haven't even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul mates in the past, but at that moment, I knew it was true. And the emotional connection had come a physical one. Dimitri and I had finally given in to the attraction. We'd sworn we never would, but... well, our feelings were just too strong. Staying away from each other had turned out to be impossible. ~Rose, Pg.74

Can you analyze our relationship in the light of Silvermanian pragmatism?" I said. "I love you because I find it compelling to be loved so entirely. You love me because as long as you do you can believe in romantic love.

She had the charisma of the sensible.

She could read the phone book and make it sound erotic.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

His eyes were like black obsidian holes that threatened to suck everything in. Hypnotized, Atsuko couldn't help being drawn down to his face. "Ah. You poor thing. You poor thing.

Ordinary bourgeois life held no force sufficiently compelling to drag one out into the chill drizzle without so much as an umbrella.

A riveting mosaic of exciting true stories… I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!

In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.

I am being lured back to the way of Jesus. I am finding it - sorry for this - spiritual. I'd kind of forgotten how compelling the Spirit is. He is the fresh wind everyone is looking for. He reminds me I am a member of a grand assembly that inspires and stirs and empowers. On bad days, when I secretly whisper, "Is this all there is?" the Spirit urges me to join Him at the bottom, where the best grassroots movements have always begun.

Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

He was a flame and she'd gotten burned, and the pain was terrible, yet it didn't make the fire any less alluring.

Of course! Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

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?

Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling heroines of 21st century crime literature, and I am thrilled to see readers have welcomed her return.