“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.” MenFirstsMayHas BeensMomentsCertainRolesMaterialsPromiseGardenAssumingRewardsMalesCriticalPsychologicalBe A ManEdenDisagreeableGarden Of EdenCritical Moments Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work
“Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.” MenBelieveChristianThreeChristianityFiguresPromiseDeserveAssumingEverydayPunishmentIncompetencePitiful Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.” DoeHelpingTechnologyPoliticianPromiseAspectMedicineAssumingPracticalsJournalistApplication Author:Steven Weinberg
“To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.” PeopleWorldYearsMeanDoeGovernmentActionForceWaitingDoorsPoliticianPromiseHappeningsAssumingNeighborCupsBrokeSugarHouseholdGreeceImpatientParaphraseFalse Promises Author:Sarah Palin
“I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.” IfsThinkingWorldSpaceDangerPromiseAssumingLifetimeDescendantsSpace Travel Author:Jon Spaihts
“After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.” PeopleBelieveMadeProcessPoliticianPromiseGainsAssumingLabourFulfilledSay AnythingFollow ThroughDisenchanted Author:Adam Rickitt