Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions. — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph. — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form. — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
We need the conviction to be able to think for ourselves and to take action outof our own sense of responsibility. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Who would I be if I wasn't strong enough to fight my fears, challenge my battles and be strong enough to stick… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image