"Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal."

-- Julian Burnside

#Assumption Quotes #Equal Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Do or do not. There is no try," says Yoda, the bewitching philosopher warrior created by George Lucas in Star Wars. Yoda is quoted at least as often as the founding fathers on this topic.”

Source : Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.128, Pearson Education
“Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.”

Source : "The Norton History of Chemistry" by William H. Brock, W W Norton & Co Inc., (p xxvi), 1993.
“No-one is friends with Hewitt and he does not worry me at all.”

Source : "Argentines don't like Hewitt: Nalbandian". www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2006.
“But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.”
“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
“Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.”

Source : Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?”

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