Conception Quotes

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

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

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

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.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

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.

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

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.