One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because,… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
