Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims. — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster… — Michael Weisskopf Copy Share Image
I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.” — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
A strong person is not meant to be insensitive. He might be compassionate and loving. But, he relentlessly fights for the things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ignorant will cling stubbornly to their beliefs. That's why its best to give people the benefit of the doubt and not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body,… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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