The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He has one ball, and I have a lazy ovary! In what twisted world does that create a baby? It's like the… — Miranda Hobbes Copy Share Image
my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they'll be lucky… — George H Davies Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts;… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months… — Susun Weed Copy Share Image
A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2,… — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share Image
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social… — Emma Goldman 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
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
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard,… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image