Notion Quotes - page 7

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. (Graham Joyce)
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people. View quote
David Eddings
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business. View quote
Alex Berenson
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. View quote
James Hillman
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. View quote
James Hillman
For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased. View quote
Jen Lancaster
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. View quote
George Zebrowski
I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion. (Amy Schumer)
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. View quote
Lawrence Wright
That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there. View quote
Atom Egoyan
[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war. View quote
Ahad Ha'am
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head. View quote
Roseanne Barr
I didn't 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. View quote
Bill de Blasio
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. View quote
David Dinkins
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. View quote
Isaac D'Israeli
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion. View quote
Corey Feldman
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. View quote
Gregory Maguire
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency, he has a right thus to act. (Francis Hutcheson)
Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals. View quote
Marvin Harris
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. View quote
Alan Dundes
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. View quote
Alfred Loisy