Conceiving Quotes
42 quotes by 38 authors
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I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble…
— Phil Gingrey
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
— Will Durant
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You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
— Herbie Hancock
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test…
— Norman Mailer
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
— Bertrand Russell
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things…
— Jonathan Franzen
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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is…
— Alan Moore
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Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our…
— Joseph Campbell
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Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of…
— Merlin Stone
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No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
— Simone Weil
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The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the…
— Charles Darwin
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
— William James
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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
— John Hawkes
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You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I…
— Joel Coen
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Climb to tranquility, finding it's real worth, conceiving the heavens flourishing on earth.
— The Moody Blues
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I don't like the way the Bible views women, this thing about the Virgin Mary conceiving a child without having sex, so if you conceive…
— Salma Hayek
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Who would have ever thought conviction would be a consequence for conceiving
— The Joker
Who Wrote These Conceiving Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 42 Conceiving Quotes, led by these top contributors: