I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong. — George Soros Copy Share Image
“True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do. — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the… — Nelly Ben Hayoun Copy Share Image
How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold… — Reggie McNeal Copy Share Image
A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score…… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My son, when you pray, do it like a person who is bidding farewell to this world, and don't assume you will… — Muadh ibn Jabal Copy Share Image
People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
We can use our art to become political, to become something you want to talk about. We make clothes, but we have… — Olivier Rousteing Copy Share Image
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word… — Ali Koehler Copy Share Image
Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I'd rather you ask 100 questions and leave knowing what I'm talking about than you asking none and assuming something that isn't true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
Ill admit, I have a terrible habit of assuming, jumping to conclusions as well as the worst case scenario. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
![“Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score… [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3b/gordon-allport-29384_assignments_since-we-think-about-ourselves-so-much-o_1110919.jpg)
