Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick O'Brian

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Derek Bok

Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.

Samuel Butler

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Fred Savage

I wouldn't say they are his worst nightmare. But I don't think he really would have been able to even conceive of a family like this.

Laurent Fabius

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Bertrand Russel

God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

Napoleon Hill

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Russ Moore

What I saw was an opportunity for young men who were already being plagued by crime, an opportunity for them to be conceived and perceived as a positive image in the community.

Kim Stanley Robinson

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.