Notion Quotes · Page 10

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

— Smokey Robinson

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

— Martin Wolf

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

— Joan Miro

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

— Dan Barker

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

“everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.”

— Emily Brontë

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

— Mark Strand

You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but…

— David Tennant

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has…

— Francis Hutcheson

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

— Pat Buchanan

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

— Anonymous

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests…

— Henry Giroux

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds…

— William Law

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't…

— Jane Fonda

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

— Thomas Sowell

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The…

— Ibn Warraq

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral…

— Joseph Sobran

We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be…

— Rush Limbaugh

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there…

— Chris Pine

We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the…

— David Hume

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory…

— Robert E. Ornstein

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending…

— W. G. Sebald

If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put…

— Criss Jami

I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are…

— Ninian Smart

Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the…

— David Graeber

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…

— Arundhati Roy

Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may…

— Ari Kiev

When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres…

— Patti Smith

There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions…

— William Hazlitt

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most…

— James Branch Cabell

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable.

— Alexander Dewdney

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

— Judith Plaskow

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

— Adolf Hitler

One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

— Hal Hellman

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

— Jean Tinguely

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

— Michael Moritz