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Quotes About Conceived

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
~ Aberjhani
Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,
~ Pierre Rosanvallon
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.
~ Ralph Ellison
Scorpio,' Lymond said, 'does not caper. He stings. We are damned, as the man says, of nature: so conceaved and borne as a serpent is a serpent, and a tode a tode, and a snake a snake by nature …' He looked at her again, a little wryly. 'And you, I suppose, are the Crab. It doesn't matter. If you want to bite, bite.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I enjoyed writing the Miss Marple stories very much, conceived a great affection for my fluffy old lady, and hoped that she might be a success. She was. After the first six stories had appeared, six more were requested, Miss Marple had definitely come to stay.
~ Agatha Christie
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
~ Ralph Ellison
The Hebrew term mishnah meant 'learning by repetition': even though it took written form, the new scripture was still conceived as an oral work and students continued to learn it by heart.
~ Karen Armstrong
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
~ Agnes Smedley
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
~ Sophocles, Philoctetes
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
~ Seth Godin
Dionysos the Tree-God, the Spirit of Vegetation, is but a maypole once perceived, then remembered and conceived.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Paraphrasing one of the king's speeches before Parliament in his stark summary of the consequences, Standish concluded: "And so it may be conceived, no wood, no kingdom.
~ Richard Rhodes
I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.
~ Paul Kengor
it is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
~ Samuel Butler
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
~ Yeats William B.
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
~ Robert Bresson
Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.
~ David Gelernter
When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
~ Brian Aldiss
for self-destruction was always part of Alexander's calculation. Russian policy in these years was intelligently conceived and was executed with consistent purpose. It was very far removed indeed from Tolstoyan mythology.
~ Dominic Lieven
It was conceived out of hubris and anxiety, at a time—1903—when Britain feared it was losing the race for dominance of the passenger-ship industry.
~ Erik Larson
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
~ Elmer Davis
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
~ James Fenton