Quotes About Conviction

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha' been a good deal easier if you'd only been a witch.

I was convinced by now that his feelings for Laoghaire were only those of a chivalrous friendship, but I didn't know what he might do if he knew that his uncle had seduced the girl and got her with child.

Being in a state of grace is all very well, but I imagine even Joan of Arc had qualms when they lit the first brand.

To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct.

Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.' And those who must see, in order to believe?

But the thing is—" He hesitated, then looked at me straight on, hazel-eyed and earnest. "I could do something else, and be as good. Care as much, or as little. I haven't got that absolute conviction that there's something in life I'm meant to do—

She had decided simply to tell the truth, as far as who she was, and what she was doing there. Her mother had said how much she looked like her father; she would have to count on that resemblance to convince them. The Highlanders she had met so far were wary of her looks and strange speech; perhaps the Murrays wouldn't believe her. Then she remembered and touched the pocket of her coat; no, they'd believe her; she had proof, after all. A

Talk to her; persuade her to

Three days before his scheduled departure, he rose in the morning with the conviction that he must speak with Fraser, somehow. Not in the stiff manner of an interview between paroled prisoner and officer of the Crown—simply a few words, as man to man. If he could have that, he could go back to London with an easy heart, knowing that sometime, somewhere, there was the possibility that they might be friends again, even if that time and place could not be here and now.

Not then. There are things worth dying or starving for—but not words.

To know something was one thing - to be told another entirely. But I knew that

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Put everything into it if you're asking people to part with money for it. That's the way I feel about it.

Belief is such an important aspect of sport.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I am an atheist.

I am an absolute atheist.

I'm an atheist.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.