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Quotes About Conception

What a remarkable conceit civilization is
~ Jeff Long
Such a conception is paradoxical if you will persist in thinking of the actual world as a collection of passive actual substances with their private characters or qualities. In that case, it must be nonsense to ask, how one such substance can form a component in the make-up of another such substance.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
~ Alice Walker
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.
~ Alice Walker
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
~ Alveda King
There are properties, one wants to say, that have never been entertained by any human being; and it also seems wrong to think that properties do not exist before human beings conceive them.
~ Alvin Plantinga
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
~ Frank Auerbach
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
~ Jacques Lacan
You have to be able to roll your eyes up into your skull, down the inside of the back of your head, up your jawbone, and into the sockets again. That's how the writers wrote the character, and the producers have too much integrity to alter the conception.
~ Richard Stevenson
in contrast to the second and third lines, would seem perfectly to confirm the synonymous conception of parallelism: "Ada and Zilla, O hearken my voice. / You wives of Lamech, give ear to my speech.
~ Robert Alter
But the underlying biblical conception of character is often unpredictable, in some ways impenetrable, constantly emerging from and slipping back into a penumbra of ambiguity, in fact has greater affinity with dominant modern notions than do the habits of conceiving character typical of the Greek epics.
~ Robert Alter
To only have conceived, Planned your great works, apart from progress, Surpasses little works achieved!
~ Robert Browning
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
~ Pope Francis
What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
~ Thomas Friedman
Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.
~ young wm paul ii
Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Truth is what you think, not what you find.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
One of the more fascinating things about human behavior is the degree to which we conceive of countless boundaries that constrain and inhibit us in extraordinary ways, even though they are nothing but mental constructs that, in reality, do not exist.
~ Dee Hock
It is impossible to conceive of idea apart from life. Every living thing has an idea of life, and every idea must have a living thing in which to arise.
~ Dee Hock
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
~ Johan Huizinga
Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.
~ Bruce H. Lipton