Notion Quotes

1394 Notion quotes by 1048 unique authors

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate… — Amos Bronson Alcott
I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we… — Jeb Bush
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not… — Amanda Bynes
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me,… — Herman Cain
Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually,… — Jane Campion
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything… — Steve Carell
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can… — Nick Cave
I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion. — Margaret Cho
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. — Noam Chomsky
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference… — John Henrik Clarke
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into… — Woody Allen
I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of… — Ronald Reagan
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready… — Adam Clarke
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts… — Henry Mitchell
Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last… — Gerry Spence
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by… — Thomas Sowell
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if… — Charles Spurgeon
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill -… — Caleb Carr
Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish,… — Dwight L. Moody
The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they… — Carl Sagan
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should… — Charles Ferguson

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