Quotes about Conviction
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he raps. Every word that he raps, you feel it.
Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Ekta was an average student, and it's wonderful to see her success. She has tremendous conviction.
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
There's not point in doing anything without conviction.
An indictment is not a conviction.
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.
'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Caf,' John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
