Reconceive Quotes & Sayings

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ... — Mary Augusta Ward

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz Von Foerster

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods? — Aleksandar Hemon

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air. — Robin Gibb

[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man's great striving.]3 — Michel De Montaigne

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy, — J.M. Coetzee

But life doesn't give us the option to remake our decisions, only the power to reconceive them — Tiffany Baker

It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, Listen to me. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead. — John Kasich

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science. — Carl Woese

Changed to the elevated at the South Station, and at about twelve o'clock had climbed down the steps at Battery Street and struck along the old waterfront past Constitution Wharf. I didn't keep track of the cross streets, and can't tell you yet which it was we turned up, but I know it wasn't Greenough Lane. — H.P. Lovecraft