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appeal

«My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.»
«No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.»
Author: Marilyn Ferguson | Keywords: appeal, gate, guards, persuade
«I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.»
«Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Logic | Keywords: appeal, The Sword
«Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.»
«I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.»
«Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible»
«Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.»
«Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.»
«I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.»

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