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
I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown;… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car,… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
