Conceive Quotes
460 Conceive quotes by 345 unique authors
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
— Ayn Rand
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting,…
— Jerry Saltz
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to…
— William Shakespeare
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I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down…
— John Shelby Spong
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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
— W. Clement Stone
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
— Jonathan Swift
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The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express…
— Johannes Tauler
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil…
— Anthony Trollope
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
— Rainn Wilson
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But…
— Woodrow Wilson
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
— Lin Yutang
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
— Helen Fisher
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My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
— Graham Greene
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Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number…
— Paul Bowles
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
— Salman Rushdie
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
— Antonin Artaud
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Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able…
— Matthew Gregory Lewis
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
— Abigail Adams
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The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
— Wallace Stevens
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