Premise Quotes

167 Premise quotes by 155 unique authors

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'. — Daniel Quinn
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the… — H P Lovecraft
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does… — Graham Swift
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally… — Timothy Keller
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity… — Josef Pieper
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is… — Ambrose Bierce
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each… — Erin Gruwell
I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities. — Scott MacDonald
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next. — Melinda Gates
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning,… — David Hood
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were… — Ernest Hemingway
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking… — Douglas Adams
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply… — Tess Gerritsen
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a… — Robin S. Sharma
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the… — Lajos Egri
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play… — Lajos Egri
Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is,… — Lajos Egri
The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need… — Unknown Author
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise. — Chris Van Allsburg
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity… — Adam Michnik
The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at… — Sharron Angle
Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or… — N. Robert Hammer
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move… — George Pierce Baker

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