Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Alan Furst

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

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.

Daniel Berrigan

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of.

You have to be early in technology. You have to have conviction, and you can't be a market-timer.

Felix Sabates

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

Billy Graham

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".

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.

Barry Scheck

Texans deserve to have faith in the evidence used in their criminal justice system to investigate, prosecute, convict and acquit.

T. S. Eliot

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

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.

We can and will convict you right now, but that's not the right thing to do,

Darcy Tucker

We have to have some conviction in our game. They're going to come in waves and we have to match that intensity, match their passion for scoring goals.

We're dealing with young people who want to go to school. People who are convicted of a drug offense should be encouraged to get an education.

Joseph Estrada

I was not able to defend myself and was convicted in the street.

Most of the growth stories are not performing today and that is how we'll go into the Fed meeting. There's still very little conviction in the market.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

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

We have no way of knowing if they were a convicted felon, or whether they were telling the truth if they said they weren't one.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

We know she doesn't want him convicted of this murder, ... She wants him out so they can have their life together.

Joe Biden

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

All of these counts could potentially expose the defendant to hundreds of years if he were to be convicted on all the counts.

Jose Saramago

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

What convinces is conviction.

Emile M. Cioran

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

There's really no conviction. The market is churning. That's all it's doing is churning.

Right now, this is unsettling noise that in the short run is not going to be favorably received but in the long run is neutral until either a conviction or acquittal occurs,