Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain… — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
