Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Ideas are not immaculately conceived.”

— Jack Provonsha

“No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?”

— Ted Chiang

“Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much…

— Jane Austen

“Even in the direst situations we are incapable of influencing that which cannot be influenced.”

— Clarissa Wild

“You cannot define anything that is beyond your sight and imagination.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.”

— Martha Nussbaum

“We cannot fathom technology that is unknown to us, and we seldom consider things that seem impossible to us.”

— Christopher Dunn

“But our discussion has soured too much by this point; he will not be persuaded, so he has become insulted. I can see he…

— P. Carey Reid

“No one can understand a person who isn’t willing to hold two opposites together. You can’t understand yourself without holding the creation and fall…

— David A. Powlison

“This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We are not all. We are defined within a greater definition, and this greater definition eludes comprehension, because we are lacking. Incapable. Insufficient.”

— Steven Erikson