I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes,… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
What others think about you is reputation.. Who you are, is character and your reputation will take care of itself.. — Nushra Copy Share Image
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“The assumption which you want him to go on making is so absurd that, if once it is questioned, even we cannot… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you… — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or… — Francis Daniels Moore Copy Share Image
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence. — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is… — Frederic Harrison Copy Share Image
“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
