Concept Quotes

1465 Concept quotes by 1137 unique authors

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
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
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order. — Henry A. Kissinger
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
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
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
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. — Luigi Pirandello
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
The concept of war crimes is an American invention. — George Wald
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
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and… — Louis Sullivan
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability. — Vijay Mallya
The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a… — Dean Norris
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I… — Connie Nielsen
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging… — Krist Novoselic
It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades… — Meshell Ndegeocello
In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the… — Keith O'Brien
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of… — Wilhelm Ostwald
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death. — Alex Lifeson
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the… — Christian Lous Lange
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept… — Alan Parsons
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And… — Mackenzie Phillips
There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and… — Giovanni Ribisi

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