Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's just no conviction to get back in, ... Right now we're in all-bad-news-all-the-time mode.

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 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.

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.

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.

Lembit Opik

It's like giving a convicted man on trial the verdict and then saying 'are you happy with that?' - and I think that that's totally unacceptable.

It looks like the market doesn't have a strong conviction about the dollar for the moment.

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

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

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.

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?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

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.

Carolyn Johnson

Before this law was passed, a tribal conviction was kind of nowhere.

This conviction demonstrates that traitors can and will be held accountable,

This early progress in profitability is the result of a year-long effort and a validation of Intel's conviction that profits, not revenue, finance growth, ... Our financial strategy over the last year has been to preserve profits and protect financial health while proceeding with investments that make Intel more competitive.

They set the stage for everything. Nobody showed the kind of conviction these men did.

This is a different jurisdiction. He hasn't been convicted of any offense in Hong Kong. There's no reason why he should not be able to return to his job.

Say it to God and tell him what you intend to accomplish, say it with conviction and passion.

The Supreme Court has said that criminal proceedings are public. In this country, we don't prosecute and lock up convicts and have no public track record of how we got there. That violates the defendants' rights not to mention the public's right to know what it's court system is doing.

It really requires ice in your veins and good conviction.

Hannah Arendt

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

All of these counts could potentially expose the defendant to hundreds of years if he were to be convicted on all the counts.

Frederick the Great

I love opposition that has convictions.

Newt Gingrich

The heart of the tape is a convicted felon saying he is going to roll over one more time and a federal employee saying to her husband, 'I'm being squeezed by the White House.' That's the heart of these tapes,

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.

Eddie Montgomery

A guilty plea is a guilty plea the way I look at it, ... He is found guilty legally. There is no difference. He is a convicted felon at this point. He is out of office. I'm OK with it.