Premiss Quotes & Sayings

For three years,' says Kirilov, 'I sought the attribute of my divinity and I have found it. The attribute of my divinity is independence.' Now can be seen the meaning of Kirilov's premiss: 'If God does not exist, I am god.' To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being. — Albert Camus

To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Karate is for life, not points. — David Walker

I'm used to being a small part of a massive production. — Maisie Williams

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. — Octavia E. Butler

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place. — Criss Jami

Sisters. Because we all need someone who will defend us behind our back and then call us on our shit to our face. — Brooke Hampton

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning ... — C.S. Lewis

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence. — William Faulkner

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character. — Henry Ford

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television. — Chaz Bono

Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality. — Mike Pence

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show. — Alicia Keys

"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self. — Pope Francis

Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. — Robert Jordan

Dream cars have no registration plate. — Lee Murray

The only logical meaning of necessity seems to be derived from implication. A proposition is more or less necessary according as the class of propositions for which it is a premiss is greater or smaller.* In this sense the propositions of logic have the greatest necessity, and those of geometry have a high degree of necessity. But this sense of necessity yields no valid argument from our inability to imagine holes in space to the conclusion that there cannot really be any space at all except in our imaginations. — Bertrand Russell

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing. — Sidney Crosby

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies. — Elizabeth Von Arnim