Conviction Quotes · Page 31

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically…

— Winston Churchill

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

— Sylvia Day

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

— Jupp Heynckes

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold…

— John P. Kotter

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet…

— Albert Pike

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social…

— Vance Havner

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change…

— Jeff Cooper

“Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch; you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as…

— T.F. Hodge

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin…

— Caspar David Friedrich

The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the…

— Ralph Johnson

Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a…

— Richard Salter Storrs

It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's…

— Laura Dern

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You…

— Thom Browne

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me.…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,…

— Joseph Conrad

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a…

— Eric Hoffer

Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying…

— Paul Washer

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

“A good actor,' said Sunay in a light theatrical tone, 'is a man who represents the sediment, the unexplored and unexplained powers…

— Orhan Pamuk

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,…

— Ronald Reagan

“And then, that feeling comes again when you seem invincible and totally awesome. You simply can't hold it in and you just…

— Ufuoma Apoki

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

— Peter C. Doherty

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a…

— Bethany McLean

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

— Martin E. Marty

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments…

— Vachel Lindsay

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

— Albert Einstein

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

— Preston Manning

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how…

— George H. Smith

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience…

— Gustave Flaubert

“...she had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow…

— Joshua Ferris

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

— Billy Graham

“As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.”

— Stephen Richards

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it…

— John Steinbeck

If you resist with courage, being always faithful to your sense of justice, you will be free of every period of adversity.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Many people asked me to convert. I said my religious convictions remain. I am fighting the wrongs within my own community. And…

— Asghar Ali Engineer