Quotes About Conception

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.

After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

Il n'avait pas un doute sur l'éventualité prochaine de cette conception, et tout ce qu'il jugeait lui être hostile, Sénécal s'acharnait dessus, avec des raisonnements de géomètre et une bonne foi d'inquisiteur

Calvitie. Toujours précoce, est causée par des excès de jeunesse ou la conception de grandes pensées.

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.

To hint to unimaginative people of a horror beyond all human conception—a horror of houses and blocks and cities leprous and cancerous with evil dragged from elder worlds—would be merely to invite a padded cell instead of restful rustication, and Malone was a man of sense despite his mysticism.

Was I conceived like this, I wondered, in the suburban night air, to the wailing of Christian curses from the mouth of a renegade Muslim masquerading as a Buddhist ?

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot conceive of that happen.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

This should have been a tocsin ringing loudly—but it was ignored by Republican voters, ignorant of history, who seemed to have no conception of how toxic this phrase was.

If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man.

And I suspect that Graham and Dodd have been ignored by those who suffer from the misconception that trying to make serious money requires that one take serious risks.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.

The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.

The conception of duty, speaking historically, has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own.

any hypothesis, however absurd, may be useful in science, if it enables a discoverer to conceive things in a new way; but when it has served this purpose by luck, it is likely to become an obstacle to further advance.