Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on… — George Kell Copy Share Image
Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos.… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power,… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming… — Diane Arbus 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
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what… — John Daly Copy Share Image
What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short,… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image