"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If they don't like who you are, tell them all to deal with but don't let them change you. — Luxolo Mbuwako Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trying To Convince People With Ideas And Words Is More Effective Than Trying To Force People To Do What You Want... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the time annihilates all reason and… — William Henry Bulwer Copy Share Image
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy. — Dorothy Kilgallen Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever… — Zoltan Kodaly 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
“Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
