It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely and more interestingly.

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

I call religion a natural authority but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

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.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

A lot of times we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed and they just want you there opening weekend before everybody finds out it's not so good.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and sooner or later he invariably found it.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations then let it be seen that way.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Since every man desires happiness it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are or respond to them as provocation then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.

For somebody famous it's weird anyway to meet someone because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

America 5 years after this brutal attack is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person larger than any one nation.