That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a…

“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")”

— Francis M. Nevins

Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The…

— Victoria Glendinning

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

— Honore de Balzac

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a…

— Guillermo del Toro

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to…

— Ronald Knox

What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional…

— Tony Robbins

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were…

— Albert Einstein

“He wouldn’t be looking for deep emotional entanglement or a love that would rock the world. I didn’t want that, either. I was suspicious…

— Sarah Stovell

Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we…

— Bell Hooks

In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional,…

— Barbara Mikulski

I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls, abandoned speedways,…

— Seph Lawless

Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

— Matt Bomer

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff…

— Matthew Perry