The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized… — James B. Utt Copy Share Image
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.” — Peter V. Rabins Copy Share Image
The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as… — Edzard Ernst 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
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Man believes the future to be the natural development of the past. But the law of assumption clearly shows that this is… — Neville Copy Share Image
“This is heaven- sunshine, coffee, and muffin." "You're so different from everyone else," he teased. "How so?" she asked, and took another… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right. — Bum Phillips Copy Share Image
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user… — Avinash Persaud Copy Share Image
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image