Quotes of: Conviction Keyword

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Simon Greenleaf

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

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The Reader

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Encounter

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

Glottal Stop

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

John Updike

Some are convicted for breaking the heart…some are the victims of broken heart – Irony of unrequited love.

Soulmates, By Chance

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.

Shaping the dream

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Mansfield Park

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Northanger Abbey

I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.

Nightshade

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Light in August

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Les Misérables

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

Leaders' Watchwords

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

Orient

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

The Prague Cemetery

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

On Peace