Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and… — Alvan Macauley Copy Share Image
Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general… — Leon Trotsky 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
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single… — Winston Churchill 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
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
