Conceived Quotes
369 Conceived quotes by 315 unique authors
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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
— William Butler Yeats
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We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be…
— Neil Postman
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At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To…
— Walter Lippmann
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought…
— Alexander Pope
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I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
— Albert Camus
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My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite…
— Anna Quindlen
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The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.
— John Smith
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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not…
— Roger Fry
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Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
— Philip Sidney
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The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in…
— Thorstein Veblen
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
— Pope Pius XII
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When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to…
— Isamu Noguchi
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Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying…
— Luther Burbank
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man…
— Rachel Carson
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Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done…
— William Osler
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The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it…
— Watchman Nee
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Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them…
— Ronald Reagan
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