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Quotes About Notion

The idea is always bigger than the man'.
~ George Orwell
Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead! You display an unseemly joy, he remarked. I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
~ Georgette Heyer
I know it, and I wanted so much not to drag you into it!' said Kitty remorsefully. 'I thought, if only you knew nothing about it, it would serve as a reason for you to put an end to our engagement!' 'Yes, I know you did. Told me so, in that letter you wrote me. Dashed cork-brained notion! Stands to reason if you're in it I must be too.
~ Georgette Heyer
I plead your cause? What the devil gave you the notion that I plead any causes but my own? Believe me, it's wide of the mark! You can't be such a - such a care-for-nobody as to refuse to lift as much as a finger to assist me! said Stacy indignantly. Oh you're quite mistaken! I am precisely such a care-for-nobody.
~ Georgette Heyer
Best thing she could do. Going to take her to stay with my grandmother.' 'By Jove!' exclaimed Ferdy, much struck. 'Devilish good notion of yours, Gil! As long as she ain't dead.' 'Of course she ain't dead!' said Mr Ringwood, with a touch of impatience. 'How could I take Kitten to stay with her if she was?
~ Georgette Heyer
Tiffany?' exclaimed Mrs Underhill incredulously. 'Why, she's got no more notion of propriety than the kitchen cat!
~ Georgette Heyer
In short, enslaved Africans arrived in North America under the English flag decades before the notionally accepted date of 1619 and, if one counts the European trade generally, decades before the 1560s when the Spanish arrived in Florida.31
~ Gerald Horne
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
~ Joe Hill
Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better off if some industries are allowed to wither, their workers lose their jobs, and investors lose their capital - all in the name of the greater glory of globalization - surely ranks near the top.
~ Edward C. Prescott
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
~ David Grann
There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.
~ Michael Mann
The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.
~ Bret Stephens
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
~ Sarah Vowell
The release of souls from this embodied life into a celestial disembodied existence is not a biblical notion. The opposite is the case with Jesus and for the entire Bible.
~ Scot McKnight
I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!
~ Scott Bakula
At a cost of up to $10,000 per pod per month, it was a highly lucrative business for the NYSE. How the setup fit in with the notion that electronic trading created a level playing field for all investors was another question.
~ Scott Patterson
The physical notion of determinism is different from destiny or fate in a subtle but crucial way: because Laplace's Demon doesn't actually exist, the future may be determined by the present, but literally nobody knows what it will be.
~ Sean Carroll
I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.
~ Bill de Blasio
Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
~ Naomi Novik
We had a notion to get out and join the sixty soldiers, but upon reflecting that there were four hundred of the Indians, we concluded to go on and join the Indians.
~ Mark Twain
A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.
~ Mark Twain
There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.—[See
~ Mark Twain
DüÅŸünce, d??ar?dan al?nan izlenimlerin mekanik ve otomatik olarak bir araya getirilmesi ve bunlardan bir ç?kar?m yap?lmas?d?r.
~ Mark Twain
To make of the truth a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a personality.
~ Martin Heidegger