Assuming Quotes

We have every reason to assume the worst.

— George W. Bush

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

— Michael Newdow

I assume I don't need an introduction.

— Anne Rice

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Why assume that to look is to see?

— Pablo Picasso

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

— Anne Frank

Assuming is the root of all disappointments.

— Rogienel Reyes

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

— William Shakespeare

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

— Megan Fox

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

— Edward Young

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

— Shirley Jones

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

— Terry-Thomas

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

— Oscar Wilde

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

— David Foster Wallace

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

— Marilynne Robinson

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of…

— Virginia Woolf

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than…

— John Henrik Clarke

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant…

— David Platt

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can…

— Juliana Hatfield

I have no idea why gay men love me, but I would have to assume it's because they know how much I…

— Chelsea Handler

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

— Dean Acheson

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned…

— Condoleezza Rice

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic…

— Harold Evans

We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Psychic impressions can also remain in a physical location for some time. You can move into a home just vacated, pick-up the…

— Frederick Lenz

“I don't know what to do about him, Sammy." (Jackie) "It's not what you do about him. It's what you do with…

— Ali Novak

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man…

— Theodor Adorno

I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine…

— Neville Goddard

I dare say, ladies and gentlemen, it's even worse in some people, it's worse than the mistake they make in just assuming…

— Rush Limbaugh

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Let your Neshuma (soul) be the real inspiration. You have a soul, you have a spirit, don't lock it in a box…

— Benjamin M. Friedman

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed…

— Vivian Gornick

On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that…

— Norman Cousins

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the…

— Hans Kung

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge…

— Susan Sontag

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of…

— Criss Jami