Quotes About Conviction

If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did nothing wrong.

I'm proud to welcome the attendees of March for Life 2019, especially those Hoosiers who made the trek to Washington to show their conviction for defending the rights of the unborn. Your passion is inspiring and your advocacy makes a real difference in lives and laws every day.

Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

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

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

An ideologue does not bend to what is popular, what will gain him power, or what is practical. He simply does what he thinks is right.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants, and you can preach with them or place some literature with them.

I've been known to preach.

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.