Conceptive Quotes & Sayings

Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this world and another). This moral code is a dramatised burlesque of the conceptive faculty, but is never so perfect or simple in that it allows latitude for change in any sense, so becomes dissociated from evolution, etc; and this divorce loses any utility and of necessity for its own preservation and the sympathy desired, evolves contradictions or a complication to give relationship. Transgressing its commandments, dishonesty shows us its iniquity, for our justification; or simultaneously we create an excuse or reason for the sin by a distortion of the moral code, that allows some incongruity. (Usually retaing a few unforgiveable sins- and an unwritten law.) — Austin Osman Spare

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic. — Monica Edwards

Writing is a team sport. — Chris White

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral. — Steven D. Levitt

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer. — Clive Thompson

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority. — Cedric Richmond

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me. — Joe Wright

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state. — Yitzhak Rabin

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat. — Charlie Munger

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.' — Jean Craighead George

Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose. — Charlotte Mason

At four that morning my son, Peter Williams Chambliss, slid into the world tiny and red and roaring with life and the awful love that caught and whirled me away when they laid him on my stomach was as strong and old as the earth and would, I knew dimly, abide as long. — Anne Rivers Siddons

You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for. — Gloria D. Gonsalves