It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction.… — Don Shula Copy Share Image
It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet -… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both… — Thomas Mulcair Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
A true leader has confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and patience to listen to the needs of… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of… — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Some of the corporate houses are using films as a means to market their brands. They are not concerned with the storyline.… — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image