Assuming Quotes · Page 46

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t…

— William S. Burroughs

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the…

— Marion Ross

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

— Rory Sutherland

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and…

— Chuck Klosterman

Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant…

— Alan Bennett

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what…

— Ian Mckellen

Find out about me and who I am before making judgements and assessments. You may be surprised with what you learn.

— Enhance Dreams

The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need…

— Ian Wilmut

I owe a great deal to Revenge Of The Nerds movie and I loved making it. But I've said this a lot:…

— Curtis Armstrong

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're…

— Bill Nighy

Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein…

— Wendell Berry

Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after…

— Claude C. Hopkins

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject…

— William Graham Sumner

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of…

— John Stuart Mill

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

I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this…

— George Brandis

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will…

— Thomas Jefferson

When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are…

— Jason Mulgrew

Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this…

— Sarah Palin

It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge.…

— Lierre Keith

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is…

— Anonymous

Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the…

— Victor J. Stenger