Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When faced with senseless drama, spiteful criticisms and misguided opinions, walking away is the best way to stand up for yourself. To… — Dodinsky Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians,… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos,… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old… — Plato Copy Share Image
You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
