Quotes About Notion

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else's.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

PHP as an object oriented programming language should be judged by how well it does the job, not on a preconceived notion of what a scripting language should or shouldn't do.

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings—assuming the company in question has earnings. As you'll see in this text, I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure, and even if I did, what business would I, who feel like the sick one, have in offering it? It's hard to consider literature a medicine; sooner or later the therapeutically minded reader will end up fingering reading itself as the sickness.

They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.

The Houyhnhnm's notion of truth and falsehood. The author's discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage. M

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

There's something absurdly comforting about the notion that we live in a universe of infinite possibilities.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

To me," Jun Do said, "what everybody gets wrong about ghosts in the notion that they're dead. In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.

Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible.