Quotes About Conviction

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

What's the point in answering, Warden? It's obvious that you've already tried and convicted me. If I tell you I am involved, you will believe me guilty. If I tell you I am not involved, you will believe me guilty. The only thing I can do is deny you your precious moral justification. She lifted a hand to her lips and pantomimed turning a key and throwing it away.

My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine.

It is going to work," I told her, keeping my tone confident. "We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us." Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. "The Rack?" "The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine," I told her soberly. "It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma—and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it.

Stop making me think," Murphy said. "I'm believing over here.

Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!

God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.

Spiritual maturity keeps you from being easily swayed in your beliefs

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

The religious conviction that challenges us to see the image of God in every person is an absolute barrier to the practice of torture.

The problems of the moment must never place the principle in doubt.

O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it.

I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.

I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty or twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.

I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed.

Talk of witch-hunts conceals an inconvenient fact: men charged with rape stand a better chance of walking free than other defendants. The conviction rate in rape trials – 63 per cent in 2012/13 – is quite a lot lower. Prosecutors are taking a bigger risk when they bring rape cases to court, especially when the alleged offences happened decades ago, leaving no forensic evidence. The Independent, 9 February 2014

mean, you're not actually going to the party with him!" "Yes, I am," Hannah confirmed

Lie to yourself until it's true.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.