Convictionswhere Quotes

#1. Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

Anthony Gregory

#2. How much does your building weigh?
A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

Noah Baumbach

#5. I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.

T.C. Boyle

#6. Atheism is too theological.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.

Martin J. Rees

#8. If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

John Astin

#9. The way I feel when you look at me is divine purpose. I don't think a species could have created this feeling that I have for you, not even in millions of years. I think it's too good and too pure, and sometimes, I don't feel worthy of such a gift and yet, it's mine.

Christina L. Barr

#10. One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

Sandra Cisneros

#11. Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson