To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world. — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there. — Santiago Durango Copy Share Image
The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion. — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It's just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I'm a big fan of… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to… — Harry Amos Bullis Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable. — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
