Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Victor Hugo

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Winston Churchill

Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense

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

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".

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.

the facts do lend support to the conviction and the findings of the jury, but there's still information that I want to review and be sure that I have in fact taken all that into consideration.

Louise Nevelson

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

Kathryn Harrison

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

Brigitte Bardot

I have the courage of my convictions.

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Ai Weiwei

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

They convicted an innocent man. The jury made the wrong decision. It's a human system, and the human system has let us down.

The two players could be suspended for life if convicted in a court of law.

The U.S. manufacturing ISM index should show a decent gain today, reinforcing the market's conviction that the U.S. recovery is for real.

They are moving to a speedy conviction ... they have already passed a sentence even before the trial has ended.

John Conyers

They want to get easier convictions, ... When you have a military tribunal, there are very few people who don't get convicted in them just as a matter of course.

Robert Zoellick

There's going to be no deal here with Aleman on the part of the United States, ... a convicted criminal.