Conviction Quotes

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

History, Nation, Pages

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
Julia Gillard

Nature, Time, Realistic

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
Marcia Wallace

Love, Deep, Together

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar

Power, Sacrifice

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.
Learned Hand

May, Safe, Employee

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
Asa Gray

Life, Different, Two

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.
Pia Zadora

Women, Strong, Full

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
John Moody

After, Public, Act

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
Daniel Berrigan

Heart, Done, Somewhere

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
Jim Garrison

State, Individual, Side

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

Religion, Truth, Mind

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
John Drinkwater

Best, Knowledge, Words

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
John Dos Passos

Romantic, Successful, Long

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
Elliot Richardson

Person, Chance, Next

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
Mike McCready

Rock, Musicians, Straight

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Kelly Miller

Power, War, Enemy

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
Frederick Sanger

Knowledge, Living, Matter

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
John Shimkus

History, Strength, Woman

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker

Courage, Last, Takes

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.
Henrique Capriles Radonski

Government, Deep, Political

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

Real, Corruption, Path

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.
Catherine Crier

Forward, May, Before

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.
Sylvia Day

Love, Fall, Fast

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
William L. Jenkins

Courage, Same, Public

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
Markus Wolf

Peace, Good, Give

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
Stafford Cripps

Deep, Real, Hard

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
Benjamin Todd Jealous

Great, Greatest, American

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
Arthur Cohn

Time, Great, Among

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin

Life, Nothing, Happen

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
Trace Adkins

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