Top 442 Premise Quotes & Sayings

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good.

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It's the premise of homeowner's insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It's one reason why it's important to have insurance when you're healthy, so that when you get sick, you won't go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.

Democrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.

The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

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 the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

We do not question an athlete who is disciplined in order to achieve their goals, and yet as parents the same premise is not applied.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

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 time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

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 will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

If you start with the premise that whatever you want to be is going to happen, it changes the way you think about it.

I think if you accept the Left's premise of a living Constitution, then you accept the Left's premise of a living America, meaning that they think that America's history is rotten.

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.