Conception Quotes - Page 9

• Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

  Jan Struther

  Baby, Fun, Party

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Railroads, Roles, Actors

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

  Stanley Milgram

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  K. D. Lang

  Kids, Piano, Listening

  "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

  John William Draper

  Nature, Men, Intellectual

  John William Draper (1874). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science”, p.310

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• The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Would Be, Looks

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• The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Men, Effort, Levels

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• Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

  Justin Berfield

  Cameras, Way, Scripts

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• A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Beginning Middle And End, Execution

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophy, Mind, Religion

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Integrity, Ideas, Intuition

  "The Studio 132:643". as cited in Voicing our visions, - "Writings by women artists", ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279, 1946.

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• True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Memories, Spring

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2

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• my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Cousin, Complaining

  Joan Rivers (1978). “Having a Baby Can Be a Scream”, Avon Books

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• When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Giving, Charity

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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• As I said, I believe life starts at conception.

  Todd Akin

  Believe, I Believe, Said

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. September 05, 2012.

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• Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

  Jeane Dixon

  Purpose, Purpose And Meaning, Our Lives

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• A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Self, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

  Emma Goldman

  Responsibility, Birth Control, Demand

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

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• I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Ideas, Atheism, Would Be

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria

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• Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Action, Prudence

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• Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

  Mary Wesley

  People, Persons, Variety

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• The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

  George C. Williams

  Simple, Doubt, Moments

  George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Enlightenment

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