#conviction

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#convictions #firm #give #hold #preferences

Convictions do not imply reasons. ↗

— Margaret Deland

#imply #reasons

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#always #attorney #client #conviction #defense

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conviction #defense #definition #families #family

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #brain #completely #conviction #everything

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#being #conviction #had #i #lives

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#completely #conviction #evil #men #never

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#conviction #gains #immensely #mind #minute