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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
by John Steinbeck (Author, American , born in 1902) keywords: against, always, any, been, coming, conviction, fish, had, his, intelligence, loses, man, private, puts , up I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
by Theodore Sturgeon (Writer, American , born in 1918) keywords: because, conviction, could, dream, life, lived, most, never , retrieve A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
by Billy Sunday (Athlete, American , born in 1862) keywords: always, cast, causes, church, conversion, conviction, devil, does, first, her, includes, men, over, part, returns, revival, second, seems, sin, spell, things, today, two , women A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
by Billy Sunday (Athlete, American , born in 1862) keywords: always, cast, causes, church, conversion, conviction, devil, does, first, her, includes, men, over, part, returns, revival, second, seems, sin, spell, things, today, two , women Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
by Dylan Thomas (Poet, Welsh , born in 1914) keywords: always, appear, bad, certainty, conviction, harsh, least, lends, poems, some, sort, then, these, things, think, too, typed , until Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
by Guy Verhofstadt (Statesman, Belgian , born in 1953) keywords: bond, brothers, conviction, duty, freedom, further, future, generations, hard-won, ideals, now, order, our, resistance, secure, strengthen , suffering Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
by Guy Verhofstadt (Statesman, Belgian , born in 1953) keywords: brave, bring, conviction, enemy, find, fire, friends, great, life, own, risk, safety, strength, where, wounded , your Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: attain, awareness, beyond, cause, conviction, find, firm, gave, go, goals, just, limits, must, our, ours, peaceful, strength, us, way , which This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: brought, came, conviction, courageous, dedicated, defense, dignity, formed, free, group, out, rights, summer, trade, unions , workers I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
by Marcia Wallace (Actor, American , born in 1942) keywords: after, born, conviction, deep, eternal, lifetime, lives, love, our, sleeping, together , waking A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
by Daniel Webster (Statesman, American , born in 1782) keywords: bad, conviction, done, many, measures, must, parent, something , strong It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
by Adam Weishaupt (Clergyman, German , born in 1748) keywords: conviction, could, done, education, every, first, fitted, full, illumination, man, nature, office, placed, plan, proper, suggested, were , which I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
by Markus Wolf (Public Servant, German , born in 1923) keywords: conviction, different, doing, expression, give, good, grandiose, instill, motivation, necessary, peace, security, something, them, tried, use, useful, want , were The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: being, belief, central, conviction, curious, existence, fact, far, few, human, inevitable, life, loneliness, men, myself, now, other, peculiar, phenomenon, rare, rests, solitary, upon , whole And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.
by Pia Zadora (Actor, American , born in 1953) keywords: cain, conviction, full, his, kind, know, lusty, sexual, strong, very, want, way, women , writes
