Notion Quotes · Page 39

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful.…

— Margaret Mitchell

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has…

— Andre Malraux

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage…

— Dalai Lama

[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is…

— Jennifer Beals

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually…

— Anonymous

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is…

— Lena Headey

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's…

— Robert Draper

“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the…

— David Harvey

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that…

— Ayn Rand

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions…

— Thomas M. Disch

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I…

— Matthew William Goode

I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon…

— Pankaj Mishra

I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion…

— Jim Gaffigan

What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so,…

— Manning Marable

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or…

— Al Jarreau

This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to…

— Barack Obama

The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been…

— Jeff Cooper

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very…

— Lewis Mumford

The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs…

— George Steiner

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

— Sharon Shinn

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're…

— Alan Watts

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility…

— Perry Moore

How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell…

— Lillian B. Rubin