#convict

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#conviction #defend #israel #strategy #west

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. ↗

— George Mason

#appeared #business #common #conviction #disgusted

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not. ↗

— Peter Medawar

#age #any #bearing #better #cannot

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #atheist #calls #christian #conviction

Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#conviction #harshness #makes #without

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conviction #indescribable #love #love is #perhaps

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account. ↗

— Dave Obey

#account #bank #bank account #based #burned

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got

Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#armed forces #believe #conviction #deep #democratic

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#assume #attitude #australia #because #been