The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our… — Greg Child Copy Share Image
When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace… — Maya Harris Copy Share Image
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years… — Zak Orth Copy Share Image
I didn't set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image