I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
There is a conception in this country about luxurious things that we have to save them for a time that's right. But… — Ralph Rucci Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months… — Susun Weed Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
What is the result of our investigation of the Moslem idea of God? Is the statement of the Koran true, "Your God… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts;… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea… — David Hume Copy Share Image
