Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Victor Hugo

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

Wilbur Ross

The increase in our positions (in the three companies) shows our conviction in the prospects for these holdings. We are delighted with our positive working relationships with each of the management teams.

Frederick the Great

I love opposition that has convictions.

Powell Clayton

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Ron Suskind

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

William Ellery Channing

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Walter Benjamin

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Tony Robbins

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.