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Quotes About Conception

I would definitely agree that 'The Witch' doesn't leave much of anything to the imagination. There are some ambiguities about 'The Witch,' for sure, but all in all, it's pretty clear what's going on.
~ Robert Eggers
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
~ Conor Oberst
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I was wearing glitter in the womb.
~ John Whaite
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
~ Rex Stout
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.
~ Steven Pinker
I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.
~ Mike Huckabee
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
~ T. E. Lawrence
It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image.
~ Sean Booth
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
~ Jacques-Louis David
Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
~ Russell L. Ackoff
For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.
~ Russell Shorto
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
~ Margaret Atwood
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
~ Margaret Atwood
The world that we think we see is only our best guess.
~ Margaret Atwood
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first in your head, and then you make it real.
~ Margaret Atwood
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it
~ Fritjof Capra
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
~ Simon McBurney
I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.
~ Timbaland
a conception of an expansive power that goes beyond previous understandings, and justifies it, not by an appeal to legal authority or political principle, but by a Manichaean myth that depicts two formations locked in a death struggle. One is the representative of absolute justice, the other of absolute injustice.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
If life begins at conception, but you can be born again later, only to live on eternally after death, what's the big deal about anything?
~ Dana Gould
Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
~ Dick Gephardt
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
~ Felix Frankfurter