I Quotes
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“I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth”
“I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.”
“I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.”
“I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.”
“I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.”
Source: Albert Reynolds: My Autobiography
“I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.”
Source: Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups
“I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.”
“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”
“I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939
“I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!”
Source: On aggression
“I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.”
“I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.”
“I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented.”
“I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.”
“I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage.”
“I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.”
“I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.”
“I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I am convinced that something out of the ordinary, if not truly unique, is occurring in Toronto. It feels like the city is emerging from a chrysalis.”
Source: Toronto Reborn: Design Successes and Challenges
“I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.”
“I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.”
Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.”
“I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.”
“I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.”
“I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.”
Source: The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class, and Power
“I am convinced that the Christian, the Flemish and if you want even the white should be a dominant factor in our society. Africa should be dominantly black to be african, Europe dominantly white to be European. That doesn't mean every European has to be white, there will always be some diversity.”
“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.”
“I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.”
“I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.”
Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope
“I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.”
“I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?”
“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.”
“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.”
“I am convinced that the language that has the most force, requires the most acumen, talent, grace, genius, and, yes, beauty, can never be, will never again be found in paeans to the glory of war, or erotic rallying cries to battle. The power of this alternate language does not arise from the tiresome, wasteful art of war, but rather from the demanding, brilliant art of peace.”
“I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.”
“I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.”
Source: The Shah's story
“I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.”
Source: An economist's protest: columns in political economy
“I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century”
“I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.”
“I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.”
“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”
“I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.”
“I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.”
Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
“I am convinced that the true Value of an extraordinary Person, or a Genius, is firstly appreciated after his Death, because during his Lifetime, the Jealousy of the most ordinary People, is often greater than their Insight.”
“I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!”
Source: The Words of César Chávez