Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at… — Guy Verhofstadt Copy Share Image
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we… — TS Eliot Copy Share Image
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both… — Frank Wedekind Copy Share Image
“The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of… — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
A true leader has confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and patience to listen to the needs of… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their… — Nathaniel Dean Copy Share Image
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
If you're not willing to fight for the things you want and deserve in life then you never really wanted or deserved… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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