#notion

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#aiming #always #blueprints #dealing #extent

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#been #god #human #human personality #ideal

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#books #good #good movies #hold #i

My words will never inspire you if you dont have any notion of what does inspiration means to me ↗

— Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza

#notion #words #inspirational

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon. ↗

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#freedom #god #notion #religion #surgeon

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#deceiver #deceiving #depends #efficiency #entirely

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea. ↗

— Woody Allen

#get #i #i can #i think #idea

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fit #i #never #notion #only

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to. ↗

— Joe Biden

#free #freedom #idea #look #notion

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era