#notion

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believers #calmer #christian #creates #decline

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

#could #equal #everybody #giving #great

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#bit #dated #i #idea #life

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#goal #limit #line #most #notion

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

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. ↗

— Jean Paul

#breathe #children #conscience #evil #formed

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#bad #bad guy #because #calling #films

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#direction #motion #notion #ordinary #spin

I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard. ↗

— Jeff Probst

#better #ever #get #guys #heard