I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves. — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction. — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
People think I'm cool - it's a virtue of my job! In real life I'm absolutely not cool, but I think if… — Shura Copy Share Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow. — Jun Mochizuki Copy Share Image
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson 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