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Quotes About Premise

Nuestra revolución partió de una premisa y es que la vida humana no es algo extraordinario y santificarla es cosa de las religiones, y aquí hemos decretado la muerte de Dios.
~ Julia Navarro
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government. I, for one, shall never accept that premise.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Un título contundente. El doble gancho de una buena premisa ha de incluir un gran título, uno que «diga de qué va» y lo haga de forma ingeniosa.
~ Blake Snyder
Si no pasa la prueba del «¿Dice de qué va?», no has dado con tu título. Ni tienes aún el doble gancho que constituye junto a una gran premisa.
~ Blake Snyder
Ofrece lo mismo tu premisa? El planteamiento que me presentas de tu comedia o de tu drama, ¿hace que se desboque mi imaginación previendo hacia dónde puede derivar la historia? Si no es así, aún no tienes premisa.
~ Blake Snyder
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
~ Barack Obama
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 logically enough to the ending.
~ George Pierce Baker
The dramatic premise is what the screenplay is about; it provides the dramatic thrust that drives the story to its conclusion.
~ Syd Field
Marmaduke's theory was that, as he couldn't understand Christianity, it was safe to premise that people whose religion was a mixture of degraded Buddhism and devilworship couldn't understand it either. So he founded a Buddhist mission, to teach 'em their own religion.
~ Talbot Mundy
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
~ Dan Harmon
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
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered.
~ R. Lee Wrights
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our beauty so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
~ Naomi Wolf
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
~ Naomi Wolf
Indeed, the premise of their work is that they can't win in a fair and open debate.
~ Katherine Stewart
Actually this book is built on a rather fragile premise: that good code matters. I have seen too much ugly code make too much money to believe that quality of code is either necessary or sufficient for commercial success or widespread use.
~ Kent Beck
The 4DX framework is based on the fundamental premise that execution is more difficult than strategizing.
~ Cal newport
Întreaga ÅŸtiin?? se bazeaz? pe credinÅ£a în anumite premise ÅŸi în valabilitatea deducÅ£iei ÅŸi a inducÅ£iei.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is not the team that creates the comfort zone. I thinks it's the kind of films. You keep doing same kind of films that makes you comfortable. But none of my roles have been the same. They have been different, even though the films' premise were the same.
~ Nushrat Bharucha
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
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
~ Isaac Asimov
What I wish to point out here is that the tribal premise is intrinsically anti-self-esteem.
~ Nathaniel Branden
It was the premise of conference organizers that the Church's continued hostility toward women threatened both their religious lives and, due to its intractable ban on artificial birth control, their physical lives.
~ Tom Robbins