Notion Quotes - Page 2

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Ideas, Religion

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• La vida es demasiado corta para tener algo más que ideas delirantes sobre uno mismo.

  Gene Simmons

  Vida, Demasiado Corta, Delirante

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• At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, People, Scarves

  "New Doctor Who Matt Smith was destined for the part because of his dress sense he tells Esquire" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2010.

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• The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mind, Liberty, Impossible

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• Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Progress, Evolution, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Hay muchas cosas graciosas en el mundo; entre ellas, la idea del hombre blanco de que es menos salvaje que los demás salvajes.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Inspiración, Hombres

  Mark Twain Peter Kaminsky (2009). "The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel", p.170, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  Marqués de Sade

  Atheist, Men, Views

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• I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Believe, Science

  The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II C. Darwin to Asa Gray May 22nd [1860] (p. 105)

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• When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  Pearl Bailey

  Achievement, Youth, Young

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  C. Wright Mills

  Government, Issues, Political

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.242, Oxford University Press

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• La gente ve películas, y son ideas vagas, nociones vagas, pero la gente capta estas cosas, que se supone que deben pensar de ciertas maneras o que no deben pensar, básicamente, y no lo hacen.

  Crispin Glover

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Romantic, Views, People

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Cuando no sabes enfocar tus pensamientos con eficacia, pueden volverse dispersos, misceláneos y fijarse en "nociones negativas, relaciones tóxicas y situaciones del pasado."

  Darren Johnson

  Past, Focus, Toxic

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• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Interesting, Support, Portraits

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• No escatimes esfuerzos para destacar por algún talento, pero no te dediques exclusivamente a una rama. Esfuérzate por tener nociones claras de todas. No abandones ninguna ciencia por completo, pues la ciencia no es más que una.

  Séneca el Joven

  Education, Giving Up, Science

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• No es que me diera vergüenza salir con él, es que no quería que la gente con ideas preconcebidas supusiera nada sobre por qué estábamos juntos. Fui bastante cuidadosa durante un tiempo.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Together, Shy

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• Estoy persuadido de que el mundo ha sido engañado para que adopte algunas nociones falsas y de lo más perniciosas sobre la coherencia, y hasta tal punto que el hombre medio ha dado la vuelta por completo a los aciertos y errores de las cosas y se enorgullece de ser "coherente", inmutable, inamovible, fosilizado, cuando debería ser su humillación.

  Mark Twain

  Hombres, Derechos, Media

  Mark Twain Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations", p.407, Courier Corporation

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• Cuida de no abrigar ideas impropias de la virtud y de la naturaleza razonable.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Felicidad, Cuidado, Virtud

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperador de Roma), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (de Tebas.) (1708). "El Emperador Marco Antonino Su conversación consigo mismo: Junto con el discurso preliminar del erudito Gataker; como también la vida del emperador", p.193

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• El padre tenía ideas sobre el sufragio masculino, las escuelas públicas, la educación y la elevación de las masas, y la emancipación gradual de los esclavos, que no encajaban con los puntos de vista intransigentes de gente de lugares como Richmond.

  Sargento John Wise

  Educación, Padre, Escuela

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). "El fin de una era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier", p.40, Anza Publishing

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• I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

  Mark Strand

  Beautiful, Concerned, Conventional

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• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Mean, Adults

  "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

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• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  Vernor Vinge

  Problem, Passing, Stage

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• La orientación hacia el futuro se combina con una noción y una expectativa de progreso, y nada es imposible.

  Alan Dundes

  Expectations, Progress, Impossible

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• First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

  Henry Maudslay

  Success, Science, Accomplishment

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• But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Real, Kids

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.469, Penguin

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