Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn't going to sit well with the American people.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.
You know, when I joined the WP, I didn't join with the notion of being sec-gen or coveting any sort of leadership appointment.
I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.
The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.
The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.
I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.
In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.
My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
I don't have a very strong notion about anything when it comes to fashion. I am okay experimenting but I know that I don't experiment.
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.
I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.