Nancy Pelosi

My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

American Politician

Chelsea Clinton

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

American Celebrity

Jason Blum

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

American Producer

H. P. Lovecraft

Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

American Novelist

Sarah Hall

Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

English Writer

Sheldon Whitehouse

Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it.

Jesse Jackson

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

American Activist

Kris Marshall

So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.

English Actor

Nina Garcia

I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.

Colombian Critic

Dennis Farina

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

American Actor

Using 'cajole' suggests a friendly, gentle method of persuasion, unlike 'manipulate' which is more negative.

Often Positive

'Cajole' implies persuasion without force or intimidation, but through pleasant means.

Non-Forceful

'Cajole' entails a level of persistence; the speaker often has to sweet-talk persistently to convince.

Subtly Persistent

 Geisha well in fact what she does is tease and cajole she boosts your ego she makes every little word you say sounds like it you know it came out of Shakespeare and she's really a past mistress of that art of making the man

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 and act like our kid's concierge and personal handler and secretary. And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be,