The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A hero is born out of the ashes of despair, anyone can be a hero, it takes courage to stand up for… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. — Charles Trevelyan 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
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
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
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
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
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Whether Osama bin Laden is doing it cynically and has no interest in these matters, or whether he's doing it out of… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human,… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
I have the strength to overcome the impossible. I have courage to stand for what I believe in. I have faith that… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray,… — Bono Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. — P. W. Botha 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
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Hits and flops happen in everyone's careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can't let that affect your conviction. — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person… — Alex Chilton Copy Share Image
