Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Akin

One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.

William Cotton

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God.

Pierre Pettigrew

The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights,

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Kathryn Harrison

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

Atharva Veda

Let me tell you this; mine is no mesmerism, miracle or magic. Mine is genuine DIVINE POWER.

Sathya Baba

Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.

Granth Sahib

Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the Divine Guru, one's fears are erased and dispelled.

David Liu

My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention,

Basil Hume

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Abraham Lincoln

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Atharva Veda

O my mind, serve Him; He is the Primal Being, the Infinite Divine Lord.

John Milton

She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods.

Tadao Ando

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Dennis Potter

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Denis Diderot

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Elbert Hubbard

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Dean Ornish

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.