Concept Quotes

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Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are… — Johnny Cash
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that… — David Levithan
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read… — Wilma Mankiller
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image… — Bruce Lee
The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that… — Hayao Miyazaki
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From… — Haruki Murakami
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own conceptâ€”our own selvesâ€”that we love. — Fernando Pessoa
A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard… — Diane Duane
When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what… — Jessica Valenti
Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to… — Sarah Rees Brennan
I donâ€™t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbiansâ€¦ itâ€™s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, itâ€™s not who… — Al Pacino
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is… — Ellen Hopkins
You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind… — Peter S. Beagle
So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need to go out… — Sarah Dessen
The present moment, though, is outside of time, itâ€™s Eternity. In India they use the word â€œkarmaâ€ for lack of any better term. But itâ€™s… — Paulo Coelho
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. — Richard Matheson
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction. — Michael Crichton
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. — Ian Mortimer
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another… — Viktor E. Frankl

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