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
I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography.… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I… — Lois Chiles Copy Share Image
We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The… — Emma Restall Orr Copy Share Image
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
