Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I… — R. Lee Wrights Copy Share Image
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very… — Steve Lillywhite Copy Share Image
The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on… — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
America has become and was the exception to the way most of the people in the world were forced to live, because… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
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
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
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've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and… — David Horowitz 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
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
