By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful.
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.
And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
