The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines…

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas…

— Frederick William Robertson

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

— Horace

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty,…

— George Will

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly…

— Michel de Montaigne

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Oh, they weren't notions like yours, they were notions like mine, all spasm, sweat and trembling, without an atom of common sense or lucidity.…

— Samuel Beckett

'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions…

— Larenz Tate

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be…

— Paul Bloom

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained…

— Lawrence Summers

“notions we used to titillate ourselves with. It”

— Margaret Atwood

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going…

— Magda Apanowicz

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people…

— Mandy Moore

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

— Saunders Mac Lane

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney