Compelling Quotes

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

I believe in the compelling power of love.

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.

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

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.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

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

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

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

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

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