Notion Quotes

1394 Notion quotes by 1048 unique authors

The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of… — Amartya Sen
I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in… — Martha Rosler
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of… — James Wolfensohn
Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this… — Christiane Amanpour
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is… — Melissa Harris-Perry
You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard… — Unknown Author
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth? — Dar Williams
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic… — Fred Hoyle
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained… — Fred Hoyle
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved… — Fred Hoyle
So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your… — Brian Greene
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in… — B. C. Forbes
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was… — Warren Mitchell
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty… — Peter Lynch
The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even… — Dave Barry
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the… — Adam Zagajewski
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Unknown Author
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order… — David Harvey
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and… — Azar Nafisi
I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative… — Stewart Lee
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time… — Wilfrid
I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the result… — Mark Applebaum

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