Notion Quotes · Page 40

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly…

— Anna Wintour

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

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

The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'…

— Anonymous

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

— Francis Bacon

The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research…

— Robert Sapolsky

Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years…

— Trey Gowdy

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means…

— Emma Thompson

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be…

— Paul Wolfowitz

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in…

— David Hume

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.…

— Jules Verne

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres…

— Patti Smith

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

— Matthew Rhys

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my…

— Sam Shepard

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most…

— James Branch Cabell

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill…

— E. F. Schumacher

Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that…

— Thomas Hardy

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who…

— Laura Schlessinger

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of…

— Russell Baker

The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written…

— Bill McKibben

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the…

— Victor Davis Hanson

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch…

— Michael Haneke

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your…

— Norman Cousins