The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality. — Emma Goldman 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
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days. — Satyajit Ray 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
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
...through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective… — Harold Rugg Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing -… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
As sure as it's the cause of birth, conception is the cause of death. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image