Famous Quotes & Sayings

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

Mike Easley

Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

William Daley

I don't think you play it safe. I think you try to be very natural and lay out in a forward way the compelling reasons for the election going your way,

I'd use the market dips as an opportunity to get into quality companies. There are a lot of good stocks, some in the technology arena, some elsewhere that are down 20 to 40 percent from their 52-week high as established just a few months ago. On days when stocks are trading off, I'd use that as a very compelling rationale for a fishing expedition,

Marc Warren

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

Mitch Daniels

I am compelled to note that Father Jenkins is off to a somewhat shaky start. He has violated the first rule of all great leaders, which is to never follow a superstar.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

Alane Ferguson

What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.

Gayle Forman

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

Lysander Spooner

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

Judge, if I looked only at what you've said and written in the past, I'd feel compelled to vote no.

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

Spencer Abraham

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

Yao Ming

Her talent and poise is what's very compelling for companies. Her ethnicity is icing on the cake.

Judith Regan

Her history and her quest for stardom will make a compelling television series: she is a musician, a young woman, and, most important, a human being. She is a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't always listen to her mother, and hasn't spoken to her father in years.

I think the main evidence is the one he provided to the whole country. I think this is about the most compelling evidence you could possibly have.

I think that the offer is compelling in terms of its logic, and I hope everyone else will see it in the same light.

It goes back to, how likely is it that you'll have a defect? Very low. And what is your test experience? Overwhelmingly positive. Then you look at your design, and your design is to be very safe. And you look at those, and it's a compelling story.

It has been hammered on an earnings warnings very recently, but their long-term earnings are very much intact; it is a compelling price in the low 40s.

He would not consider it unless he saw compelling evidence that it would not harm New Hampshire's quality of life. And I don't think the Legislature will pass it.

David Shaw

He'll be very compelling and be very persuasive.

If the filmmaker has not done the work to grab the viewer with compelling storytelling, then the shock will probably be little more than a passing gimmick or an obscenity.

If someone can get ADSL today, the reasons today are compelling enough.

Margaret Fuller

I guess I felt compelled to express the loss I was feeling and the fact that I was praying for her. I didn't really think about whether she would receive my message or not.

Janet Reno

If we're compelled to enforce our order, we intend to do so in a reasoned, measured way,

Rod Serling

I grew up in a single family household and when you decide to go to the wall on your first project you really want to go with material that you're passionate about and I think that is one of the reasons I felt so compelled to make this film.

Gloria Steinem

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Henry Winkler

If you make compelling television, they will come.

We see no compelling scientific reason to re-create the virulent virus.

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While we give GM a 'B' for effort, this news is not as compelling as it sounds.

While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to a compelling second-half story.