Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative.… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The act of defiance does not merely showcase bravery to stand for one's belief, it also proves that nobody is high or… — Mark Raymond Abad Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon Copy Share Image
