Premiss Quotes

#1. Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

William Faulkner

#2. 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

#3. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

John Dewey

#5. The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.

Krishna Saagar

#6. As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Rudolf Arnheim

#7. Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as is our life here on earth.

Thomas S. Monson

#8. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#9. This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.

Michael Paterniti

#10. Compass rules direction; Decision rules life!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. No woman should have as her life's mate a man who has mated with half the females in England, who brings home diseases and litters the countryside with his butter stamps. It's wrong.

Barbara Metzger