Quotes About Conceive

Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

open your thighs to fate and(if you can withholding nothing)World, conceive a man

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show less in a movie, you've got to figure out more.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

If there is a sense of reality...then there must also be something we can call a sense of possibility... the sense of possibility could be defined outright as the ability to conceive of everything there might be just as well, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not... It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

the people may undoubtedly change the government, not because it is ill exercised, but because they conceive another form will be more conducive to their welfare.

A creative mind is always on (unless it's not).

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Concept-work as I conceive it demands "mobile thought," Foucault's term, in advocating an "ethics of discomfort.

Epifania's first order was the most ancient wish of dynasts: that Carmen must conceive a male child, a king-in-waiting through whom his loving mother and grandmother would rule. Carmen, realising in her bitter consternation that this very first instruction would have to be disobeyed, lowered her eyes, muttered, 'Okay, Epifania Aunty, wish is my command,' and fled the room.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.

Is there nightshade in my brain? That I conceive your consequence as some stage in my need?

To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.

The human being has reason. This enables him to conceive of truth- yet what he says or writes in learned books is always but a thrust in the direction of truth, it ever falls short of truth itself.

If our consciousnesses can conceive it or our hearts grieve it, someone has composed a reference tidily summing the perfunctory steps to enlightenment. It would seem that we have merely traded one saviour for another, another someone to tell us how. We