Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots. — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I'm a very highly opinionated person, and so people assume I'm opining on everything; when I open my mouth and say something,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free… — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is… — Donny Deutsch Copy Share Image
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,… — Sanford Levinson Copy Share Image
I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes… — Scott McClellan 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
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image