Conceive Quotes
460 Conceive quotes by 345 unique authors
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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life…
— Mark Twain
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A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a…
— Ariana Franklin
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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
— Jonathan Edwards
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Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. It’s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it
— Aesop
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Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice…
— Jean Genet
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
— Malcolm X
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But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,…
— Ayn Rand
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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
— Wendell Berry
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But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
— George Eliot
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We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a…
— David Foster Wallace
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
— George Washington
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I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
— Charles Fort
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in…
— Oscar Wilde
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I…
— Lord Byron
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I…
— J R Ward
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It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
— Michael Crichton
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