Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Coble

An indictment is not a conviction.

Hugh Jackman

I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.

If he's convicted and is forced to step down he can be replaced. The question is what happens if the trial is postponed or delayed until after the election.

I figure we have sufficient evidence to convict him . . . there's no one else but him.

Susan Collins

I am willing to travel the road wherever it leads, whether it's to the conviction or the acquittal of the president. But in order to do that, I need more evidence, ... I need witnesses and further evidence to guide me to the right destination: to get to the truth.

Bruce Gordon

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 think we can read anything at all into it. It's a lack of conviction and a lot of fence-sitting.

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

Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

Carolyn Johnson

Before this law was passed, a tribal conviction was kind of nowhere.

I just see a lot of listless trading into the end of the summer -- there isn't much conviction,

Joseph Conrad

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

He's playing with more conviction, and he's making the easier play. He's not trying to make something out of nothing.

It was strong enough to say with conviction that we're not going to come to grinding halt, but weak enough that the Fed can stay on hold, ... It's Goldilocks again.

It's a very tentative-type market where people are going to opt for safety and wait it out. I think there's just a lack of conviction here.

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.

It's highly, highly critical of his reliability. They should have the truth before them, his prior conviction for dishonesty. There is no crime that's more probative than lying to a jury.

Lembit Opik

It's like giving a convicted man on trial the verdict and then saying 'are you happy with that?' - and I think that that's totally unacceptable.

It looks like the market doesn't have a strong conviction about the dollar for the moment.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

Margaret Thatcher

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

Mark Twain

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

There is tremendous conviction here that people will not let it happen. Democracy is not working here, it's the only route we've got.

Max Lucado

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

I just don't understand how they could have convicted her on the trafficking, especially with those tapes.

Saddam Hussein

I razed them... we specified the farmland of those who were convicted and I signed.

If Judge Starr's object of this whole investigation is to net Monica Lewinsky in a conviction and jail time, then we have to look at how our tax dollars are being spent.

Vin Diesel

The film describes him as this convicted killer, but doesn't give any explanation or justification for it,

Marcel Proust

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.