Notion Quotes - Page 40

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

  Julian Barnes

  Powerful, Responsibility, Sole

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.104, Random House

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• But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.

  Jacques Derrida

  What If, Doubt, Secret

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• I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating." Steve Jobs

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Innovation, Way

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• I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.

  Norman Maclean

  Mean, Long, Luck

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

  Jean Sasson

  Children, Parent, Helping

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• All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

  Ann Voskamp

  Ends, God's Love

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Trying, Use

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2085, Delphi Classics

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• First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

  Aberjhani

  Motivational, Taken, Moving Forward

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.21, Lulu.com

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, Benefits, Suspicious

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• The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

  Andrew Weil

  Ideas, Modern, Should

  "Spontaneous Happiness". Book by Andrew Weil, www.npr.org. 2011.

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• Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Essentials, Substance, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jul 26, 2012

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• The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Perfect, Choices

  Isaiah Berlin (2012). “The Proper Study Of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays”, p.11, Random House

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• The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Desire, Arriving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

  Angela Carter

  Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

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• As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.

  Sam Harris

  Creating, Design, Promise

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• We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Odd, Mercy

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• Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Practice, Giving

  William Wilberforce (1871). “A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity. Complete ed”, p.349

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• When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Belief, Remove

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.135, Penguin

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.

  Dan Abnett

  Stars, Lying, Past

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• If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

  Thomas Sowell

  Peers, Matter, Facts

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• I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.

  Pittacus Lore

  Silly, Different, Would Be

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• The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

  Steven Erikson

  Dark, Creating, Evil

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• He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Two, Space, Wife

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• LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them. ME: I can't say i agree with that notion. LUCAS: More of both, then.

  Tammara Webber

  Couple, Memories, Needs

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