Assumed Quotes
439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors
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..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick…
— Claire LaZebnik
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As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God…
— Philip Yancey
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My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then…
— Justin Halpern
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I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.
— Kami Garcia
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As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
— David Sedaris
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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He…
— Alan Watts
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There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire…
— Cassandra Clare
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Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
— Veronica Roth
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his…
— Seneca the Younger
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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed…
— Theodore Levitt
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched…
— Robert Frost
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Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the…
— Mark McKinnon
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory…
— Gary Wolf
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How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can…
— Margaret Heffernan
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On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
— Howard Rheingold
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I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had…
— William Gibson
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I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a…
— Kim Cattrall
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When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery…
— Maripol
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I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his…
— Huston Smith
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Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw…
— David Harsanyi
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My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too…
— Stephen Hawking
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9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of…
— Martin Jacques
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I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my…
— George Zimmerman
Who Wrote These Assumed Quotes
377 authors contributed a total of 439 Assumed Quotes, led by these top contributors: