I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks… — James Randi Copy Share Image
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion… — Morris West 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
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
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
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
My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image