The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value… — Kyle E. McSlarrow Copy Share Image
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING… — Miguel Copy Share Image
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest,… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
“We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours,… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions;… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image