If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Never stop doubting , never stop questioning, never ever assume you have all the answers. Having all the answers kills the question… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in… — Heloise Copy Share Image
At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of… — Tamara E. Jernigan Copy Share Image
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming… — Greg Rutherford Copy Share Image
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.… — Estelle Getty Copy Share Image
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and… — David Gallagher Copy Share Image
Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community. — Joseph C. Rost Copy Share Image
It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem. — Peter Gleick Copy Share Image
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged…” quote by Tracy Letts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de8/tracy-letts-12197_assuming_you-know-people-see-august-osage-county_2789355.jpg)
