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Quotes About Conceived

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long for the moment when they will meet my eyes, when it haunt my thoughts, no more.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
From the austere negations of the ancient Indian materialists, to the funereal perambulations of Schopenhauer, pessimism also has its own ontological argument: existence is that beyond which nothing worse can be conceived.
~ Eugene Thacker
The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
~ Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Somewhere, out in the infinite distance, lay the spring, at least in God's mind, like babies that are not yet conceived in the mother's womb. (from The Fish can Sing)
~ Halldor Laxness
I never thought that 'Shutter' would have as many remakes when I conceived the film all those years ago. It is nice to see a film that I made talking so many different languages.
~ Joy Mathew
It's also true that certain medical organizations treat rape survivors with a drug that prevents fertilization but fails to act against a conceived zygote, thus opening the possibility that a pregnancy could occur as the result of the rape.
~ Susan Wiggs
[T]hey are the offspring of experience... instinct with blood and breath and vitality.... They are not propositions, conceived in the understanding and addressed to life, but propositions born of life itself, and addressed to the heart. They were not conceived in the minds of the great few, but they sprang from the life of the people.
~ Josiah G. Holland
There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.
~ Dhanush
Indeed, a more astounding fact, in the heart of society, cannot be conceived than this: That law should have become an instrument of injustice.
~ Frederic Bastiat
I was born an outcast in an ancient and subtle way; I was conceived out of some grief or darkness and would be made to pay a price for it.
~ Haven Kimmel
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
~ Robyn Davidson
Great ideas that are conceived and not sold are like babies that are stillborn. We need some deliveries within the next few months, even if they have to be cesarian. I will approve any programs you have to bring about those deliveries," and he added with a touch of humor, "provided of course you recognize my total opposition to any abortions." Signed, THE PRESIDENT.
~ Bob Woodward
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
~ Francis Herbert Bradley
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
But it must not be forgotten that 'politics' has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder.
~ Michel Foucault
My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.
~ Kevin Kwan
'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.
~ Henry Selick
My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
~ Alvin Lee
Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived." See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152
~ Carl B. Boyer
The morning brought the crisis of my life. But it was not anything that I could have conceived of in my wildest imaginings.
~ Iris Murdoch
They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.
~ Irving Stone
There are wonderful films that become studio films, but they're conceived independently. That's where the action is. 'Being John Malkovich' is a great example of a picture you wouldn't think the studios would want, and it turns out to be a movie that touches everybody's heart.
~ David Carradine
Hate and love were both conceived in fear, perhaps that was why they were nearly the same thing, but only one was steeped in hope.
~ D. Morgenstern