The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well.
Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
