Notion Quotes

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next Star Wars. I think it's something else that will be fresh and original.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

General notions are generally wrong.

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"