Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're… — Frankie Boyle 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
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
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
“The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can’t… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler 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
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
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
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space… — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly — Claude C. Hopkins 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
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image