The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses'… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry… — Adam Garfinkle Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
As I say so often, “Observe and wait.” Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out.… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them,… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you… — Eben Pagan Copy Share Image
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact,… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
I'm also not sure that I look up to others as knowing what the hell is going on, except maybe Andre Agassi,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
