Notion Quotations | Page 8

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children; and therein it specially suits our middle-class.

I don't understand how you could have a situation where you've got several days' notice of an enormous hurricane building in the Gulf Coast, you know that New Orleans is 6 feet below sea level. ... The notion that you don't have good plans in place just does not make sense,

Whoever was in charge of planning was so detached from the realities of inner city life in New Orleans ... that they couldn't conceive of the notion that they couldn't load up their SUV's, put $100 worth of gas in there, put some sparkling water and drive off to a hotel and check in with a credit card,

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages

The notion that we are going to stand by in the face of this is unacceptable.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

If you subscribe to the notion of God as being separate from you, than you will always be lost, because you can't even trust in your own untrustworthiness.