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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.


Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.


A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.


The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.


I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.


Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.


Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.


Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.


What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.


The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.


It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.


I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.


The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.


It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.


I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.


It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.


There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.


The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.


Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.


Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.