If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency… — Peter York Copy Share Image
[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs,… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image