Converting Quotes

112 quotes by 102 authors

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… — Angela Davis
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. — Anita Diament
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. — Tim Ferriss
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? — Heinrich Heine
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember… — Jim Henson
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. — Aldous Huxley
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of… — Muhammad Iqbal
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. — D. H. Lawrence
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as… — T.E. Lawrence
The greatest religions convert the world through stories. — Ben Okri
Time makes more converts than reason. — Thomas Paine
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May… — Lester B. Pearson
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die… — Max Planck
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. — Friedrich Schiller
An overflow of good converts to bad. — William Shakespeare
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. — Charlie Sheen
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling… — John Strachan
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need… — Kanye West
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can… — Mark Steyn
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I… — Milton Friedman

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