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Quotes About Notion

From her instructions, I had an early notion, that it was much more noble to forgive an injury than to resent it: and to give a life than to take it.
~ Samuel Richardson
Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.
~ Saul Bellow
Just as you can't attribute the spin of a proton to any one of its constituents, you can't attribute an event in time to a single earlier cause. Complex systems have neither a useful notion of individuality nor a proper notion of causality.
~ John Brockman
This is significantly different from the notion of giving everyone the means of production. It consists of making the means of production mobilize its audience, a form of auto-stimulation.
~ John Corbett
Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. 'Theme for a novel: The contrary pull ... " No. If this notion were real, he needn't make a note. A notion on which a note had to be made would be stillborn anyway, his notebook was a parish register of such, born and dead on the same page. Let it live if it can. ("Novelty")
~ John Crowley
For it is in the passage-times that fall between ages—when the laws of an old world weaken and begin to fail and the laws of the new are not yet in force—that we are visited with the notion that time is malleable, that the future is up for shaping, that nothing is fixed: then we are brushed by that wing, and it is the only call we will get.
~ John Crowley
I was proud of this small insight; I had no notion how close I was to the truth, and therefore I was as far away as ever.
~ John Crowley
Politics disabuses a person of the notion that you can please everybody. It is an inescapable fact that people will always have different opinions, and some people are going to disagree. Sooner or later, a person constructs his or her own "platform" and stands on it, regardless of what others think, say, or do. It is also true that some people delight in another person's demise.
~ John David Ashcroft
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life
~ Joseph Rykwert
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.
~ Alice Munro
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
~ Edward Hoagland
A weak figure or subject can neither stand independently nor execute its will precisely; thus, it fails to actuate its notion. Consequently, it is worse than a strong dictatorship that empowers and enforces its objectives significantly since not every dictator can be dishonest in every dimension. Indeed, as such insight and concept, an honest dictatorship is better as a comparison between a weak and corrupt democracy in those societies where people stay self-idiot.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every writing or expression on all subjects is an opinion, whatever it may be in any form, length, and dimensions.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
On the day of human rights, I dare to say that since 1948, the United Nations fail, to adopt the universal solidification of human rights notion within its precise context of a free and equal world. Indeed, human exists; however, not the rights yet.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The smile constitutes harmony; conversely, love embraces peace since that both aspire and inspire positive power and notion.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The un-understandable notion appears as an awkward definition when that turns and separates from Human Rights, becoming as Women Rights, create a distinction and division between itself. As a fact, the right rights already exist as religion and society values accurately, which only need the discipline to apply accordingly.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The un-understandable notion appears as an awkward definition when that turns and separates from Human Rights, becoming as Women's Rights create a distinction and division between itself. As a fact, the right rights already exist as religion and society values accurately, which need only the discipline to apply accordingly.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went about making himself indispensable.
~ Antoine Wilson
I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.
~ Bill Irwin
A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.
~ Rajkummar Rao
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
~ Stella Young
I never thought my choice to leave the NFL would lead to 'Face the Nation.' When I first thought of quitting, I cringed at the notion of becoming a football safety advocate. I was making a personal decision; I never set out to influence others.
~ Chris Borland
To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.
~ Lawrence Wright
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
~ Tavis Smiley