Assuming Quotes · Page 14

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

— William S. Burroughs

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

— Dave Heineman

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

— John Clayton

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

— Patricia Cornwell

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

— Robert Piper

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

— Walter Isaacson

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

— William Macneile Dixon

Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them.

— Mike Flanagan

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got…

— Jamie Dimon

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form…

— Edith Wharton

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is…

— James A. Baldwin

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones…

— Anonymous

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either.…

— Sarah Dessen

Saw a lost dog sign with a pic of the dog and a little boy hugging it. I'm assuming the kids safe…

— Dane Cook

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

— Rush Limbaugh

A lot of people assume that New Castrati meant "gay." No, that's why I came up with the term "New Castrati." It…

— Rush Limbaugh

Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What…

— Peter Thomas

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they…

— Steven Bochco

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read…

— Bayard Taylor

Respecting beings, places, and life ways would be a basis for a worthy systemic analysis. And such an analysis would be inherently…

— Stephanie Mills

Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more…

— Joan D. Chittister

That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she…

— Maggie Stiefvater

They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After…

— Kevin Bacon

My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about…

— Gary A. Klein

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt…

— Donald Barthelme

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom,…

— Maimonides

There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating,…

— Michael Novak

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further…

— Keith Devlin

Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.

— Joan Benoit

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

— Morton T. Kelsey

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

— Richard P. Feynman

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

— George Eliot

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

— Josephine de Beauharnais

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

— Jack Nicholson

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

— David Mamet

I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.

— Scott Adams