Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.
I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.' - Katrina, 'Convicted
In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.
The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.
As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.
Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.
I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.
Have your own Convictions. Believe in the laws of your Conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing.-RVM
Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.-RVM
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.
