Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“Making assumptions in our relationships is really asking for problems. Often we make the assumption that our partners know what we think… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
I noticed that the work of my non - I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest… — Jack McBrayer Copy Share Image
The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it… — Gabriel Kolko Copy Share Image
Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only… — Douglas Merrill Copy Share Image
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal,… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A lot of people get the assumption that because someone is able to sit here in front of a camera and speak… — Zoe Sugg Copy Share Image