Conviction Quotes - Page 35

• People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.

  Eric Bolling

  Gun, Cities, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Robert E. Lee

  Real, Men, Honest

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by Armistead Lindsay Long, 1886.

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• Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Odds, Minorities, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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• What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

  Earl Browder

  War, Years, World

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• In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Erotic, Skins

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• Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.

  Andrea Riseborough

  Real, Believe, Fighting

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• I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confusion, Worship, Painful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.106, Modern Library

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• Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

  Edward Kennedy

  Sacrifice, Political, Hours

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• Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

  Mary Catherwood

  Loss, Density, Denial

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.307, tredition

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• "True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Latin, Hands, Two

  "Isis Unveiled". Book by Helena Blavatsky. Volume I, Chapter VII, 1877.

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• We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Struggle, Tyrants, Age

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• A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Judgment, Certain, Verdict

  "King v. Harris". 1797.

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• I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Punishment, Essentials, Judgment

  "King v. Harris". 1797.

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• Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Heartfelt, Doing Nothing, Action

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• I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

  Ida Tarbell

  Afterlife, Effort, Mind

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.23, Ravenio Books

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• Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Belief, Intellect, Conscience

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• I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Problem, Economics, Social

  "A Reconstruction of Economics". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. VII, 1950.

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• There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Heart, Love Is, Feelings

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• In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Time, Buddhism, Long

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Knows, Genuineness

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• After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Night, Ideas

  Remarks on the Occasion of 83rd Birthday Gala, delivered 3 February 1994

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• Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

  Benjamin Graham

  Men, Investing, Selling

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2008). “Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett”, p.35, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

  Walter Schloss

  Decision, Investing, Made

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• Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Emotion, Stay True

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• In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Groups, Gathering, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.641, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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