Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion… — Diana Gabaldon 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
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other… — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The original idea [ of the Pineapple Express] came from Judd [Apatow] actually. He just kind of had the loose notion of… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image