Concept Quotes
1465 quotes by 1137 authors
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A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen.…
— Gary Paul Nabhan
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When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept.…
— Juliana Hatfield
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When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually…
— Juliana Hatfield
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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work…
— Alan Gottlieb
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It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western…
— Aviva Chomsky
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In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of…
— Layne Redmond
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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of…
— Albert Einstein
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The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.…
— Arthur Goldberg
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of…
— James A. Baldwin
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right,…
— Lauren Bacall
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I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept,…
— Charles Kennedy
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I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
— Frank Zappa
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Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
— Luigi Pirandello
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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,…
— Florence King
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
— George Wald
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Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life,…
— Hans Hofmann
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