Unpersuadable Quotes

#1. Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

James Surowiecki

#2. The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

Greg Mortenson

#3. We heard from a professor at an evangelical college who wore a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women. Now we have a different perspective. Asra Nomani co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post titled in part "As Muslim Women, We Actually Ask You Not To Wear The Hijab."

Ari Shapiro

#4. You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'

Charles Gwathmey

#5. To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne

Maryrose Wood

#6. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified.

Joseph Conrad

#7. I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

Ray Bradbury

#9. Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I don't think I realized how hard I'd been running until I had to stop

Kiera Cass