Concept Quotes

1465 Concept quotes by 1137 unique authors

No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And… — Lionel Shriver
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...] — Tao Lin
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is… — Stephen King
Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure.… — Gayle Forman
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a… — Rachel Cohn
Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires,… — Richard Matheson
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,… — Margaret Atwood
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now.… — Ellen Hopkins
This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never… — Veronica Roth
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity… — Douglas Adams
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 concept—our own selves—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 don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’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

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