Conceived Quotes
369 Conceived quotes by 315 unique authors
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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
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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
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of…
— Michel Houellebecq
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature…
— Rachel Carson
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These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
— Flannery O'Connor
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It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
— Robert Penn Warren
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