Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It… — Leslie Groves Copy Share Image
“...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life);… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
To realize a dream; focus on the powerful, magical part of life known as vision, innovation and attitude. Devote yourself to a… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and… — Leo Tolstoy 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
A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image