#conviction

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#by the time #conviction #delivered #everybody #except

Strong convictions precede great actions. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#actions #convictions #great #precede #strong

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

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#color #conviction #experience #holds #only

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. ↗

— John McCarthy

#meet #nature #political #surprising #thugs

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#convictions #even #kindness #made #many

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#convictions #enjoys #estate #first #fourteenth