The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. — James Madison Copy Share Image
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them. — Nick Vujicic 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
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have… — Rob Simmons Copy Share Image
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor… — Horace Copy Share Image
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to… — Houston Stewart Chamberlain Copy Share Image
A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will… — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Be completely sincere in love; don’t love just because you want to fill a void or gratify a desire. Love, because you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making… — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image