Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Arendt

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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.

If convicted of all counts, she's facing up to 19 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Miguel

You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

Mark Twain

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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.

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

David Gill

I would think if he gets convicted of something there may be some changes. We still go by innocent until proven guilty.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

has not been convicted of drug offenses or (a) crime of violence.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

hit intentionally by a driver and we convicted him and put him in jail for a year.

It is a good judgment and I am pleased that three of the defendants are now convicted for this crime. These three were the most important.

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

Rebel Wilson

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".

Gordon B. Hinckley

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.

Pierre Pettigrew

The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights,

We can and will convict you right now, but that's not the right thing to do,

Darcy Tucker

We have to have some conviction in our game. They're going to come in waves and we have to match that intensity, match their passion for scoring goals.

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

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

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.