A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.” — Peter V. Rabins Copy Share Image
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“The assumption which you want him to go on making is so absurd that, if once it is questioned, even we cannot… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you… — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of… — Kristin Linklater Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized… — James B. Utt Copy Share Image
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right. — Bum Phillips Copy Share Image
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user… — Avinash Persaud Copy Share Image
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
