Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Yes, it's true. Immaculate conception exists. I am the second coming of Christ. I have no father.” — Nathan Wrann Copy Share Image
Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and… — Pope John Paul II 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
The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
“Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it’s a fierce and unforgiving team sport.” — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates 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 Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it. — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however,… — Alfred Einstein Copy Share Image
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image