I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
John Polkinghorne

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
Francis Ford Coppola

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.
John Hutton

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.
Jennifer Saunders

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sydney J. Harris

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Salman Rushdie

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Hugh Hefner

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
Dick Cheney

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
Frank McCourt

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
Leonard Nimoy

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
Leonard Nimoy

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
Leonard Nimoy

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Robert Plant

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas