#notion

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #autonomy #away #connections #notion

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#i #life #notion #race #rejected

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

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. ↗

— Ron Paul

#cause #conceived #conscription #death #ever

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#conceive #impossible #intimately #liberty #make

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#could #deeply #experience #feature #feature film

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#ample #been #bridge #controversy #entire

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#dependence #different #different meaning #different people #energy