There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange...

Tolstoy said, ‘The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.’ Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our...

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

Dreaming is the art of thinking deep about who you want to be, what you are moved by your God-guided passion to do and what you are convinced to be the passion that moves the...

Die Gewohnheit einer Meinung erzeugt oft völlige Ueberzeugung von ihrer Richtigkeit, sie verbirgt die schwächeren Theile davon, und macht uns unfähig, die Beweise dagegen anzunehmen.The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction...

rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.

Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation and experience is outside my narrow range. Despite the psychopath’s lack of conscience...

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child ‘ s spirit.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong…

One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer ‘no’ time and time again, so he turns...

There’s no conviction for a sustained move but there’s just an ongoing rotation, … Everyone knows now that (interest) rates aren’t going to go up for awhile so it’s just a recycling of the same...

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine...

Everyone connected with ‘Conviction’ is excited about being part of the breaking wave of a brand new technology.

Supongo que nuestro intelecto, entre los 20 y los 25 años, encierra ya todas las opiniones que después habremos de tener y de manifestar a lo largo de nuestra vida. Pero a esa edad todavía...

In light matters–matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things–he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

Pass on it if you’re not passionate; for convictions create clear choices.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities – that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Some do it out of conviction, and there are others who do it out of political opportunism.

People don’t follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was,...

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not...

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over...

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That...

Conviction

I have met with the two delegations and it is my conviction that the delegations do realize the importance of the moment, … I think that they will be working constructively and in the remaining...

If you were destined to be a poet, then you won’t brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn’t start searching for fans. If you are truly...

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the High Court in Edinburgh in June 2007. It involved a mother who stood...

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it…and even more to live it.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

(Hilton) was instrumental in the capture and ultimately the conviction. I’m really happy to put this thing behind me, and that this guy will be in jail for 11 years.

It will have some positive effect, but I don’t think there’s a strong conviction the stock market rally is going to be sustained. No one is really cashing it in and beginning to spend more...

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the...

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

If you are convinced about your choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of God!

I don’t purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with...

Internal conviction drives external action.