Assuming Quotes · Page 73

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework…

— Muhammad Yunus

When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You…

— Douglas Coupland

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

— Condoleezza Rice

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

— James Victore

I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting…

— David Mixner

In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer…

— Kenneth Arrow

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than…

— Albert Camus

Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In…

— Howard Gardner

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

— Lord Byron

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then…

— Mariel Hemingway

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where…

— Albert Camus

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species,…

— Ravi Ravindra

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health,…

— Avicenna

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And…

— Hugo Chavez

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 social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

— Mark Steyn

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace…

— Fredrik Bajer

Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People…

— Robert Fulghum

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in…

— Thomas Szasz

One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a panic attack.…

— Jennifer James

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then…

— Molly Ringwald

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

— Peter Zumthor

There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There…

— Suzy Kassem

as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips…

— Anne Fortier

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

— Feist