Converting Quotes - Page 2

• We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

  Bob Inglis

  Giving, Support, Needs

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• As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Real, Men, Dust

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• To change, to convert? Why bother?

  Lionel Blue

  Bother, Why Bother

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• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

  Rowan Williams

  Beauty, Order, Creative

  Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Rowan Williams (1999). “Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology”, Tamp;t Clark Ltd

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, War, Cities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

  Anita Diament

  Wedding, Husband, Judaism

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• NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

  Jim Henson

  Black And White, Nbc, Color

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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• I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

  Matt Lucas

  Couple, Nice, Party

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• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Certainty, Verify

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• It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

  Bede Griffiths

  Christian, Understanding, Together

  Bede Griffiths (1973). “Vedanta & Christian faith”

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• Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Song, Teacher

  "Song: Jesus Walks (Album: "The College Dropout")". 2004.

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

  Margaret Atwood

  Female, Saint, Mary

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

  Grace Napolitano

  Safety, Risk, Investment

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• There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

  Julius Streicher

  Book, Greek, Christianity

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• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

  Cory Doctorow

  Girl, Ebay, Games

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Thinking, Profound

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• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

  Nikola Tesla

  Future, Engineering, Brain

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• Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Choices

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