I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world.… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs.… — Martin Winterkorn Copy Share Image
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber 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
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature… — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
