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Quotes About Conviction

She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all. (Chapter 1)
~ Harper Lee
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends." "That's odd, isn't it?
~ Harper Lee
I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
~ Harper Lee
Uncle Jack, I can't live in a place that I don't agree with and that doesn't agree with me.
~ Harper Lee
Do you really think so?
~ Harper Lee
wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
~ Harper Lee
She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all.
~ Harper Lee
Kažkas yra m?s? gyvenime, kas ver?ia žmones pamesti galvas - jie nori b?ti teisingi, o negali.
~ Harper Lee
sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle
~ Harper Lee
Guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . .
~ Harper Lee
In the name of God, believe him.
~ Harper Lee
She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you- don't proposition with them all.
~ Harper Lee
couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." "Doesn't make it right," said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. "You just can't convict a man on evidence like that—you can't." "You couldn't, but they could and did.
~ Harper Lee
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
~ Harper Lee
Oni, naravno, imaju pravo da tako misle i zaslužuju poštovanje zbog svojih stajališta," rekao je Atticus, "ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovanjem ve?ine.
~ Harper Lee
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand
~ Harper Lee
If you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like you, Tom would have been a free man... (Lee 251)
~ Harper Lee
I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
~ Harper Lee
It is amazing the things people will believe if you catch them early enough.
~ Harry Harrison
so great was his feeling of rightness that he could ignore the dark shadow of the future.
~ Harry Harrison
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
~ Haruki Murakami
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
~ Haruki Murakami
Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
~ Haruki Murakami
They were people who had no doubt whatsoever that the more narrow-minded they became, the closer they got to heaven.
~ Haruki Murakami