When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and… — William D. Hoard Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience… — William James Copy Share Image
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human… — Ismail al-Faruqi Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James Copy Share Image
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality.… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon…But at least a… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
