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The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic. — Satya Nadella

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. — Linus Torvalds

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion. — Smokey Robinson

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. — Ann Richards

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something. — Rian Johnson

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. — Marianne Williamson

The human mind defines things in relation to one another - without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible — Josh Waitzkin

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment — Tom Robbins

Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. — H.M. Forester

Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life! And this, If God did not exist, man would — Sue Monk Kidd

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. — Trey Gowdy

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt. — Gary McCord

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality. — Daniel Woodrell

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion - or you shall learn nothing. — Gerald R. Ford

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. — Tony Abbott

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact. — Deepak Chopra

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination. — W. A. Criswell

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that
matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change. — Carlton Cuse

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. — Luc Besson

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing. — George Smoot

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world. — Richard Rorty

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth? — Dar Williams

The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism. — Khushwant Singh

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad. — Sam Shepard

as we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. — Amor Towles

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders. — Janny Wurts

When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true. — Kosho Uchiyama

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. — Walter Lippmann

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. — T. S. Eliot

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong — James Branch Cabell

We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. — Charles Krauthammer

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!" — Matthew William Goode

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. — Warren Beatty

While we're in the dream, these are useful notions. — Frederick Lenz

People fall hard for the notion of falling, and saying you want no part of it will only get you sent to the loony bin. — David Levithan

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited. — Lord Byron

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel. — Trevor Noah

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one. — Nicholas Negroponte

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated. — Laura Berman Fortgang

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion. — John Green

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. — Lemuel K. Washburn

We all belong to one nation and that notion for nation is the land of the Lords. — Santosh Kalwar

To do it all and deprive others of doing is ... a misguided notion. — Jan Karon

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate. — Anna Wintour

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill

But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales. — Sharon Kay Penman

Africa the place is forever obscured by the shadow of Africa the notion. — Andrew Rice

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. — Stendhal

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. — Lynn Abbey

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas

He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best. — George Orwell

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

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that. — Robert Redford

To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion - and a horrifying one. — David Guterson

Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back. — Gregory Maguire

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. — Robertson Davies

I've found comfort in the notion that David-man after God's own heart-was often tortured and confused. — Seth Haines

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. — Lewis Mumford

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions. — Sakyong Mipham

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. — Jane Austen

It was a ludicrous notion, born of panic, but no panic is ludicrous in its particular moment. Panic possesses its own logical integrity. — Rick Yancey

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars. — Jim Leach

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. — Mark Twain

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer. — Matthew Rhys

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation. — Ellen McLaughlin

Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible. — Adam Johnson

A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. — Mark Twain

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York. — Jim Gaffigan

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. — David Chang

They were simply meant to be.
He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck. — Kristen Ashley

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. — Nick Harkaway

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback. — George Eliot

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness. — Katharine Hepburn

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. — Soren Kierkegaard

For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them. — G.K. Chesterton

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want. — Mark Sanford

To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality. — Martin Heidegger

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud

Adrian, however, pushed us to believe in the application of thought to life, in the notion — Julian Barnes

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. — Jean Sasson

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion. — Jose Saramago

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James

Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best. — David Nicholls

I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages — Mercy Johnson

The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot. — James Comey

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father. — Donald Miller