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439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New… — Douglas Adams
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.… — Wendell Berry
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings.… — Erich Fromm
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at… — Cassandra Clare
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even… — Agatha Christie
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. — Jasper Johns
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of… — Hermann Hesse
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll… — Berkeley Breathed
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that… — Diana Gabaldon
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham
He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or… — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my… — Adeline Yen Mah
Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all… — William Goldman
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant… — Amy Tan
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the… — Jodi Picoult
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself -… — William P. Young
I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed… — Nora Roberts
My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that… — Michael J. Fox
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to… — George MacDonald
I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to,… — Norma Fox Mazer

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