People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for... →
John Dos Passos
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.
Stephan Pastis
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
George Pataki
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to... →
Katherine Paterson
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Jason Patric
When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.
I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit... →
Danica Patrick