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Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though. — Patrick W. Carr

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. — Gilles Deleuze

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings. — Cormac McCarthy

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them. — Crimson "C.L. Williams"

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't. — Alanis Morissette

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. — Rory Stewart

Not to burst your preconceived notions of me, but do I look like I care? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality. — Bruce Lee

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author. — Martin Amis

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. — Bell Hooks

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves. — Philip Yancey

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues. — Mark McKinnon

Civilian notions about unreasonable search and seizure and warrants and probable cause stop at an army post main gate. — Lee Child

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. — Gene Simmons

To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being. — Thich Nhat Hanh

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken. — Ron Suskind

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. — Lord Byron

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity. — Stella Young

Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating. — George Eliot

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg

I expect the notions of personal freedom and representative government would appear radical to a slave of the corporate world." "A — Anthony Ryan

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. — Max Brooks

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace. — Peter O'Toole

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. — Lou Reed

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. — Larry Wall

Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists. — Pooja Ruprell

But everyone is trouble, I want to say. And everyone has preconceived notions. — Lauren Blakely

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions. — Dan Barker

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions — Joseph Chilton Pearce

...we are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions. — Gina Carano

The love of your life is the person who makes you forget what all your standards and preconceived notions about love and romance even were. — Carla Neggers

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker

It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you. — Christopher Paolini

You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that — David Grann

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. — Mary Browne

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams

He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.
- Father Brown — G.K. Chesterton

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. — Eric Maisel

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. — Rumi

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way. — Horace

You simply have to move forward despite all the notions about how we are supposed to be. — Nancy Horan

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. — Algernon Sidney

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self. — Guru Nanak

We generally colour our ideas of the unknown with our notions of the known. — Fernando Pessoa

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J.B. Priestley

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. — Adam Clarke

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. — David Attenborough

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. — Gautama Buddha

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. — Lucretia Mott

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler. — S.D. Smith

Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is my conviction that we make ourselves who we want to be and not chain ourselves to the notions of busybodies who wish to judge us. — Matthew Pearl

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

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up. — Mandy Moore

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. — Lucy Grealy

Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions. — Charles Martin

Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing. — Nikola Tesla

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out. — Tom Rachman

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. — Peter O'Toole

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance. — Michel De Montaigne

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails. — Lorrie Moore

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process. — Scott Kahn

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society — William Graham Sumner

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

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

The notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. — Saunders Mac Lane

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers ... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick

Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex. — Phil Klay

To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress. — Henry Latham Doherty

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. — Brother Lawrence

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. — Theodor Herzl

Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men. — Joseph Smith Jr.

You are confusing two notions, "the solution of a problem" and "the correct posing of the question". Only the second is essential for the artist. — Anton Chekhov

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities. — Thomas Moore

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. — Samuel Johnson

Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission. — Melda Beaty

And, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions — Thomas More

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm

Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon. — Barbara W. Tuchman

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. — James Russell Lowell

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process. — Chris Baty

I am learning to reevaluate all concepts and notions long associated with love. — Ena

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences. — Deepak Chopra

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. — Hod Lipson

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte M. Mason

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions. — Meister Eckhart

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. — George Eliot

Others' Notions may make you 'Good' but your own notions will make you "Great. — Rajesh Walecha