Conception Quotations

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.

People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

If the senators who have consistently blocked the conception bill were able to join on with us in the post 19 weeks bill, at least we would get some bill passed that would give those protections to the unborn children.

If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society.

I have never, as far as I can remember, given one moment's thought as to whether any drawing that I was doing was for adults or children. I have never changed one conception or line or detail to suit the supposed age of the reader. And I have never, in what writing I have done, changed one word or phrase of text because I felt it might be over the heads of children. I have never, I hope, Insulted the intelligence of any child. And with God and my publishers willing, I promise them that I never will.

Test-tube technology gives them another chance to have a baby. But we are not encouraging women to put off their conception for too long.

Our aspiration is to be the largest, most dynamic, vibrant mobile community offering to consumers. Our starting point is a mobile entertainment service, and that is a steppingstone to a broader conception of mobile community.

It gives other schools an opportunity. People say it's watered down, but so what? Take advantage of it. In 15 years, is anyone going to talk about Walther or Immaculate Conception going Downstate in the multiplier year? No, because everybody will be used to it.

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Who is the stranger... that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in the breeze?

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

The exhibition really captures the essence of the Titanic story. It celebrates the conception and building of the largest moving object made by human hands at the time. It also celebrates the life at sea for the passengers -- the luxury of first class and the more cramped conditions of third class. Then, it sort of changes moods to that dramatic encounter with the iceberg.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

At one extreme stands the fact that educated adults have a conception of space, i.e., mathematical or geometrical space, Euclidean, Cartesian, non-Euclidean, etc.

Between the conception and the creation between the emotion and the response Falls the shadow

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. It originated, doubtless, in that desire, which every great poet must especially feel, of revealing to his age forms of nobler beauty and heroism than dwell in the minds of those around him.

The Rehnquist court ... attempted to restore dual sovereignty and the conception that states have functions that cannot be displaced by the federal government.

To some degree the colonial conception of government had been affected by the English Commonwealth of 1649, and the English Revolution of 1688.

Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my dad just had no conception of what this was about, and sort of didn't even want to acknowledge it.

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

At Lexus, we believe that the ultimate success is a satisfied and loyal customer. Our business model is based on treating every customer like a guest in our own home, which means providing the highest quality of attention and care at every level: from design conception to dealership and from purchase to service. This, more than any number, is our goal at all times.

you've really got an auto-centric mentality among the bureaucratic elite. They've got absolutely no conception of the role that rail plays. ... All they're trying to do is to destroy the company and not have their fingerprints on it.

That's where we feel we do our clients a very good service. We integrate our teams. They carry projects from conception to completion. We pride ourselves in taking the client through the whole experience.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.

I'm even getting phone calls nowadays from women who have had their first babies with us, and want to discuss possible conception dates for the next one.

Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

The beautiful programme of Watson. its fatal flaw is that it's good for the lab and in the lab; but you put it on and take it off like a lab coat. It does not generate an image of man, a philosophy of life, a conception of human nature. It's not a gu

Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn't bad. It was good.

I, pro. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be ""We"", but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Conception

A home in which the housewife sheds tears will be bereft of all prosperity. This is the ancient conception of the role of women in the home.

The initial conception for Vista was to be exactly that kind of dramatic leap forward on a number of fronts. But we're 10 years further down the boulevard of history. The software is incredibly complicated to build.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to ''prime the pump'' and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

The conception of the idea is there, but the devil is going to be in the details.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

There's a conception in the community that the school district has an open enrollment policy.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

The conception of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.