Conception Quotes

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

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

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

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.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

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

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.