At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn… — Dave Obey Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
“Her conviction wavered further. “I told you; don’t try to own me.” “I don’t want to own you.” She swiveled her neck… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important… — Jeffrey Herf Copy Share Image
One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
...Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Inner strength is not built in the moments when everything goes your way, but in the moments when you refuse to surrender… — Itayi Garande Copy Share Image
But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways;… — Fielding H. Yost Copy Share Image
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages.… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
