Notion Quotes
If you subscribe to the notion of God as being separate from you, than you will always be lost, because you can't even trust in your own untrustworthiness.
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.
This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.
I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.
For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.
The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.
I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.
Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)
In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.
We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.
The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.
The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.
When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.