Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Mark Mellman

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Richard Cripps

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

William Cotton

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.

Anton LaVey

The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

Alanis Morissette

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

Blake Lively

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.

Carice van Houten

I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

Cameron Russell

Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet,

Busy Philipps

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

Edward Norton

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.