#premise

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#i #i think #invasion #iraq #launched

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

— Walter Lang

#come #essential #everything #evolution #into

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#flaw #give #i #i can #i do

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ↗

— William H. Seward

#assuming #cannot #equal #falls #ground

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

#career politicians #checks #credible #definition #different

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#against #connection #correct #first #guard

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#because #drops #fascinated #favorite #fiction

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does

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. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #awful #built #did #done

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#built #family #gamble #hell #here