“It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.” WorldLifeHeartStillsBrokenCircumstancesPerfectionNotionContraryHallelujahBroken World Author:Leonard Cohen
“What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.” PeopleLittlesTermFreedomLibertyBreakBrokenHigherNotionOffenseDisagreeableSaying And Doing Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.” IfsThinkingNeedsEnoughWholeBigsEnergyGoneTheoryBrokenProveNotionStringsFlawsGalaxyBangsSuspiciousTemperatureSymmetryString TheoryReunitedGone Away Author:Edgar Mitchell
“You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.” TryingMightBrokenNotionWork OutLiftsSpells Author:Ron Suskind
“The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.” IfsBeautifulWalksMorningBrokenAbsolutesNotionLegsRelativeVersusBeautiful MorningBroken LegHemorrhoids Author:George Saunders
“The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.” PeopleGovernmentPracticeRecordsBrokenPropertyDemocraticNotion Author:Ryan Shapiro
“I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.” ThinkingMenProblemRunningHouseFeminismBrokenFemaleNotionBroken HeartBroken Family Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.” EndsMomentsHomeLastsMillionsAtheismCreationBrokenMessagesNotionAtheistKingdomsFallenSomedayLive BySparksGatheringFragmentsVesselMessengersArriving Author:Thomas Pynchon
“Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.” ShouldHeartMomentsWould BeBeautifulFacesJusticeBreakBrokenAssumingNotionLovelyMagazinesEloquenceEvokeSymmetryCalmingBreak Your Heart Author:Clive Barker
“Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.” ChildrenEnoughSpiritSufferingBrokenNeededAdultsNotionInnocenceMatureWipeJoyousBroken Down Book:Centaur Aisle Source: Centaur Aisle