I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Bela Bartok

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.
Benjamin Franklin

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Gottfried Leibniz

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Edgard Varese

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
Edvard Munch

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Woodrow Wilson

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
Lenny Kravitz

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Clive Bell

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
Wilhelm Dilthey

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
Jonathan Franzen

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
William S. Paley

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.
Paul Harris

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Henry Ellis

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.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Nicolas Malebranche

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
Michael Apted

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift