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Conception Quotes
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. - Orhan Pamuk Quotes
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. - Giacomo Casanova Quotes
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. - Tom Coburn Quotes
Generally, Ive got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. - Hugh Hopper Quotes
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. - J M Coetzee Quotes
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. - F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. - Edward Hopper Quotes
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. - James D Watson Quotes
But a conception of human nature, and its connections to other fields such as politics and the arts, have been there from time immemorial. - Steven Pinker Quotes
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. - Alan Patrick Herbert Quotes
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. - Franz Liszt Quotes
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. - Theodor Adorno Quotes
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. - Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. - Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. - Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. - Neil Jordan Quotes
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. - E M Forster Quotes
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. - Benito Mussolini Quotes
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. - Franz Kafka Quotes
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. - Jane Addams Quotes
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity. - Alfred Einstein Quotes
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. - Jacques Lacan Quotes
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. - John Doolittle Quotes
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer. - Peter Bichsel Quotes
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. - David Hume Quotes
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. - Pat Metheny Quotes
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation. - Jacques Delors Quotes
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days. - Satyajit Ray Quotes
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