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Quotes About Conception

On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
On a night without the moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
As pessoas não conseguem conceber que alguém tenha uma virtude que elas não conseguem conceber em si mesmas. Em vez de acreditar que você é mais forte, é mais fácil acreditar que você é mais fraco.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing is stupider than the common complaint that poetry lacks human interest, unless it concerns itself with human emotions, actions, problems and viewpoints. Anything conceivable by the imagination, any speculation ((conception)) ((emergence)) of what may be beyond, above and beneath the mundane sphere, can ((or may,)) possess human interest, by enlarging the horizons of that interest.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
The type of person you want to become—what the purpose of your life is—is too important to leave to chance. It needs to be deliberately conceived, chosen, and managed. The opportunities and challenges in your life that allow you to become that person will, by their very nature, be emergent.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The meaning of life must be conceived in terms of the specific meaning of a personal life in a given situation. Each man is unique, after all, and each man's life is singular; no one is replaceable nor is his life repeatable. This twofold uniqueness adds to man's responsibleness.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
We cannot imagine what we cannot see.
~ Laura Lippman
It is in the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.
~ Laurence Sterne
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.
~ Laurence Sterne
I have friends who've conceived easily, who've struggled to conceive, who've adopted or gone through invasive IVF procedures or used surrogates, or who've decided not to conceive—and the main constant in all of their experiences seems to be judgment.
~ Celeste Ng
Alphabets therefore encourage an atomistic conception of meaning and, by extension, of the universe
~ Charles Eisenstein
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
~ Graham Greene
The conception of property has experienced a fundamental change. The individualistic conception of the State - a result of the liberal spirit- must give way to the concept that communal welfare precedes individual welfare.
~ Gunter Reimann
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
~ Gustave Courbet
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
~ Gustave Courbet
envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?
~ Guy Deutscher
in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene. He was at pains to correct the common mythology and thought a word might help. The myth was this: that "personal qualities" are transmitted from parent to progeny. This is "the most naïve and oldest conception of heredity," Johanssen said in a speech to the American Society of Naturalists. It was understandable.
~ James Gleick
Thought is a thought of thought
~ James Joyce
Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.
~ James Patterson
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
~ Felix Adler
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
~ Herbert Croly
From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
~ Robert Casey
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
~ James Henry Breasted
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