We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of...
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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.
My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." [Reviewing by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in (1986)]
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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.
We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.
