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I feel his language is encouraging -- he seems to be discovering a reality, the same reality that I see. Now what we need to see is whether he will use the George Bush-style conviction to eliminate poverty.

I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.

I don't think we can read anything at all into it. It's a lack of conviction and a lot of fence-sitting.

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

However, we have a 98 percent conviction rate of drug dealers in this state.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

An indictment is not a conviction.

He actually believed in his heart that he would better them by his conviction and his beliefs and his skills, and I think largely succeeded. What he leaves behind is a tremendous challenge for the rest of us and a guiding force.

He acted out of conviction and showed great courage when he stood up for the rights of all Americans.

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.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

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.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

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

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction,

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

I love opposition that has convictions.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

The Innocence Project is thrilled to be the beneficiary of the band's generosity. The wave of post conviction DNA exonerations sends a message to all of us that the criminal justice system is broken and desperately needs to be fixed. Thank you Nine Inch Nails for joining us in the quest for meaningful justice.

These figures suggest that growth is stable but not extremely strong. These figures should add to the conviction in financial markets that the Fed will soon be able to stop raising rates.

This is a good text. It is a balanced text. It is my conviction that it is possible to reach a full agreement.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

The damage is already done. Investors are willing to go in and buy on the weakness. There is enough conviction that 25 basis points (one-quarter percentage point) is already built in.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

The increase in our positions (in the three companies) shows our conviction in the prospects for these holdings. We are delighted with our positive working relationships with each of the management teams.

The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some extent, that's already priced into the market, so you're not seeing that much stock reaction. There's not a lot of conviction and some people will take profits. But I think there will continue to be a moderately upwards bias for the remainder of the year.

The foundation was born out of conviction that our society is rich in the potential found in its people.

The court found that there was not sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction under the charge of negligent homicide against Lopez.

The concentration of stocks is concerning. An active fund manager would not put a portfolio together simply based on how big a company is or how big a portion of the index it represents. I would prefer to invest with a manager with a high degree of conviction in what they think are the best opportunities for growth.

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

An allegation of wrongful conviction and misadministration of justice as fundamental as this one is too important to have decided by a bunch of pathologists in the back room,

The market will probably drift to the upside as we close out the year but there doesn't seem to be any conviction to it.

The market has been languishing for the last couple of days over concern about rising interest rates. But we've seen a little bit of relief there and you've also seen oil prices come off. It still doesn't feel if there is much conviction behind the move.

The market is smelling a positive surprise that Congress is going to do something good for the economy, ... What we're looking at is a growing conviction that the worst is behind us.

The market is clearly in a cha-cha mode. There's very little conviction and that's why we're seeing this kind of volatility.

The market is apprehensive and hesitant in its conviction, waiting for clearer earnings direction from perceived market leaders.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.