Conceived Quotes

369 Conceived quotes by 315 unique authors

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. — Baruch Spinoza
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. — Josiah Stamp
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. — Thorstein Veblen
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every… — Simone Weil
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… — Thomas Hardy
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display. — Chuck Palahniuk
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle
Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God. — Robert Fulghum
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy,… — William Jennings Bryan
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous… — Muhammad Asad
If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there… — Marilynne Robinson
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound… — Charlotte Bronte
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights… — Robert Kennedy
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among… — Wendell Berry
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything… — Soren Kierkegaard
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light,… — Ayn Rand
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with… — Richard Ford
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There… — Robert Penn Warren
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families. — Martin Luther
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw

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