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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

You have the right to chose your destiny, otherwise you will be left to live someone else's idea of what your life should be. — Steven Redhead

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. — Samuel Johnson

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more. — George Clooney

The men of pure-hearted and open-minded
feel no worry about running out of new ideas. — Toba Beta

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. — Lance Armstrong

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya — Lydhia Marie

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him. — Colm Toibin

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue. — James De La Vega

There may be some truth in that idea houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them — Stephen King

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun! — Joss Whedon

I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like "Just Visiting" on the Monopoly board. — David Vann

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire. — Yanis Varoufakis

The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through. — Alan Cohen

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. — Victor Hugo

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one. — David Miliband

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another. — Cornel Wilde

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. — David Antin

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. — Wendy Kopp

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination. — John Cassavetes

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. — George Chuvalo

I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons. — Lindsay Lohan

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule. — Mark Messier

We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

Was it love or was it the idea of being in love? — Pink Floyd

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter. — Sam Altman

I've never liked the idea of working for other people. — Ted Ligety

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time. — Marc Andreessen

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH — Daniel G. Amen

The idea of having no sin is a delusion; you are altogether deceived if you say so; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go. — Matthew Barney

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said. — Leander Kahney

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable. — Sean Carroll

I've always been in love with the idea of being in love, if that counts. — Jay Bell

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that. — Mooji

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day. — Jason Aaron

She might be dying. The idea pleased her. — Lauren Oliver

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. — Elliott Abrams

If he could get the idea of paper money past them then he was home and, if not dry, then at least merely Moist. — Terry Pratchett

The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth. — Rudy Rucker

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place. — Helen Clark

An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define ... or destroy you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it. — August Wilson

They then easily moved on to the faith-destroying, even blasphemous idea that everything that happens in this world is caused by God. — Dallas Willard

In the flesh," Maharet said. "In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea, beware the devil. — Anne Rice

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place. — Brandon Sanderson

You know, you left without saying good-bye. That's not like you, not that I have the slightest idea what you're like. — Warren Beatty

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention. — Chuck Palahniuk

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

That's such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to. — Becky Chambers

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives. — John O'Donohue

For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now. — Rafael Yglesias

I dream of a Digital India where the world looks to India for the next Big Idea. — Narendra Modi

Izzy felt as though she'd wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic. — Tessa Dare

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis De Sade

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. — Simon Travaglia

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane

She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars.

And really, that was enough. — Melissa Landers

I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do. — Jim Rash

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it. — Olivia Palermo

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. — Tammy Bruce

Suffering is part of the divine idea. — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. — Marya Mannes

If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart chakra is in the center of the chest. — Frederick Lenz

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo

I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life — Eric Greitens

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old. — Dixie Carter

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is. — Pete Wentz

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders. — Condoleezza Rice

Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it's the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth. — Peter Thiel

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect. — E.B. White

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object. — Anne Sullivan Macy

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. - LINUS PAULING — Thomas Kelley

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns — Natasha Trethewey

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none. — Alfred Schnittke

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work. — Marcel Duchamp

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss. — Quentin Blake

If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens. — Paul Brown

It's just this emptiness between us, the stupid idea I could kiss it away, — Courtney Summers

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time. — Art Alexakis

The only worthwhile idea is the one on which you take action. — John Jantsch

I love the 'idea of love', but how does one practice it?
Says, one religion to another, one person to another, one soul to another!! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing. — Mark Helprin

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like. — Lily James

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within. — Liz Phair

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom. — Felix Baumgartner

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way. — Brian Greene

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. — Marilyn Vos Savant