S Ideas Quotes

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.