Notion Quotes · Page 72

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in…

— Emile Zola

I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues…

— Cornel West

Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the…

— Hermann Goring

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive…

— Gordon S. Wood

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

— Matthew Kelly

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

— Michael Moritz

here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite…

— Bill Gates

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light…

— James Pearse Connelly

The Eastern Europeans invested too many of their hopes in the notion that somehow or other the missile shield, even if directed…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which…

— Norbert Wiener

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful…

— Christina Romer

Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love…

— Daniel Levitin

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending…

— W. G. Sebald

Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they…

— Ron Shelton

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

— William Alfred Quayle

Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us."…

— Ian Somerhalder

Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not…

— Jim Dobbin

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for…

— Herbert Spencer

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted…

— Arto Lindsay

It seems to me perfectly possible to act humanely towards other beings, whether humans or animals or plants. One simply has to…

— Talal Asad

I have privileges even in comparison to a Palestinian Israeli because Palestinian Israelis who live permanently in Ramallah risk their status, not…

— Amira Hass

There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more…

— Dallas Roberts

Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've…

— Kate Bornstein

We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires.…

— Gotz Aly