All Quotes

Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
‐‐ Jason Silva

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.
‐‐ Raymond Kelly

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
‐‐ Christine Quinn

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
‐‐ Abba Eban

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.
‐‐ David Graeber

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Consequences are unpitying.
‐‐ George Eliot

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
‐‐ Maimonides

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
‐‐ Michel Patini

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
‐‐ John Moody

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
‐‐ June Jordan

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
‐‐ Quintilian

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
‐‐ Peter Eisenman

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
‐‐ Aldo Leopold

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.
‐‐ Jim Costa

Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.
‐‐ Peter Beard

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
‐‐ Sheherazade Goldsmith

Conservation is now a dead word.
‐‐ Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
‐‐ Gifford Pinchot

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
‐‐ Lamar S. Smith

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Conservatism as a formal political doctrine didn't exist in America in 1940. The word 'conservative' was associated primarily with fringe groups - anti-industrial Southern agrarians and the anti-New Deal tycoons who led the Liberty League.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.
‐‐ Joe Wurzelbacher

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
‐‐ Jonathan Krohn

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
‐‐ Mary Matalin

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
‐‐ Ted Rall

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
‐‐ John Gresham Machen

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
‐‐ Bill Kristol

Conservative's the last thing I am.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers in the tens of millions. But having people tune in and being able to dictate their actions are two different things.
‐‐ John Ridley

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich