It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
We all agree men are dogs, with the similar conviction let's also agree to the quiet truth; women are desperate dogs.
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.
We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.
There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
