I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which… — Rubellite Kawena Johnson Copy Share Image
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
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch; you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
