I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does… — Gerard J Tellis Copy Share Image
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by… — Josh Quittner Copy Share Image
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is… — Anonymous 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
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh.… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. …… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to… — Rex Brandt Copy Share Image
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When you go to a party at somebody's house, don't automatically assume that the drinks are free. Ask, and ask often. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image