What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when the wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When a woman extends her hand for you to shake it, then you shake her hand. You do not turn it up… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it. — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Find out about me and who I am before making judgements and assessments. You may be surprised with what you learn. — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you… — Ellen Hollman Copy Share Image
But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully… — Katharine Jefferts Schori Copy Share Image
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Assuming without asking, claiming without proving, concluding without knowing can reveal the true heart of a pretty false person.” — loren weisman Copy Share Image
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
