Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

That's the real shame. Society is not well-served by sending a convict to a penitentiary who needs mental-health care.

Rebel Wilson

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

has not been convicted of drug offenses or (a) crime of violence.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

David Gill

I would think if he gets convicted of something there may be some changes. We still go by innocent until proven guilty.

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.

Joseph Estrada

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

It is a good judgment and I am pleased that three of the defendants are now convicted for this crime. These three were the most important.

hit intentionally by a driver and we convicted him and put him in jail for a year.

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

Robert Mueller

For us, it is not just having a terrorist event happening and then gathering the evidence to put it in a courtroom to convict somebody after we're able to identify him, detain him and extradite him.

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

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

John Muckler

He was an idol of his as a boxer, but (Emery) knows now that he lost that right (to wear the mask) with (Tyson's) conviction as a rapist and a female abuser. Ray told me he would take it off.

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

Ayn Rand

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

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.

One in every three people convicted for DWI in Los Alamos County is under 21 years of age.

Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.

Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.

Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence, you can't convict anybody.

She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

This provides some conviction that China's economy is still growing very fast.

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,

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.

Edgar Ramirez

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

Alan Furst

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.