Conception Quotes · Page 9

Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

— Joan Rivers

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

— Georges Braque

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't…

— Paul Ryan

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

— Emma Goldman

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men,…

— Herman Melville

“Conception of an idea is vital. Rightly said, "Products are made in the factory, but brands are built in the minds of…

— Priyavrat Thareja

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in…

— Ellen G. White

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have…

— Adrienne Clarkson

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he…

— Sam Cooke

I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of…

— Sarah Hyland

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer…

— Romola Garai

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth…

— Annia Ciezadlo

America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of…

— Ann Bridge

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial…

— Barbara Myerhoff

If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally,…

— W. H. Auden

The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As…

— Aristotle

Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out…

— Cal Thomas

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

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

— Satyajit Ray

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

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

— J. Michael Straczynski

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

— Theodor Adorno

“Holy Mother we do believe, That without sin Thou didst conceive; May we now in Thee believing, Also sin without conceiving.”

— A. P. Herbert

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

— Ramana Maharshi

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

— Jonas Salk

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but…

— Konrad Lorenz

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

— Sam Harris

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have…

— J. E. Buckrose

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a…

— Dan Lipinski

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the baby. He was there for the birth. It would've been nice if he was there…

— Joan Rivers