Quotes of: Vague-idea Keyword

If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

Mere Christianity

Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.

The Secret Prince

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

Sincerely, Andy Rooney

The best salespeople are not salespeople, they’re people who’ve not only bought the product, but also bought into the idea of the company and the brand.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

sTORI Telling

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Swann's Way

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Swann's Way

The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.

The Trees in My Forest

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

One Long Thread

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

The Poisonwood Bible

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.

Plain Kate

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

The Plague

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Public Opinion

People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.

Persephone

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

Persuasion

I've never experienced peace in my life, and I don't want to. I don't trust the idea

Places in the World a Woman Could Walk

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

The Queen of the Tearling

A brick could be used as the ultimate bug crusher. But why you’d use a brick as a shoe, I have no idea. 

Rick Bet Blank

C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble

This Side of Paradise