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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.
[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
I was willing to walk away from my dream job, let's leave it at that. In order for me to do that, I had to be true to my convictions and what makes you a human being.
The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.
If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
When I opened my first brew-pub, I did not include a checkbox on hiring applications that required applicants to disclose criminal convictions. And we were better for it.
Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.
Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.
I don't think Ed Miliband has the courage of his convictions. He's scared he'll be painted by the rightwing press as a throwback to the time of the 'big state.'
Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
A judge may never subvert the law or twist it in any way to match the judge's convictions.
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.
Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.
Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.
The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.
It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.
I was smarter when I was 15, 16 than when I was 18 to 26, because instead of caving in to being cool, I stuck close to my convictions and I was rewarded.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.
I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
