Best Assumes Quotes

223 Assumes quotes by 205 unique authors

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the… — Hannah Arendt
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to… — Robert Bork
The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and… — Yoweri Museveni
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain,… — Stephen Sondheim
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those… — Ravi Zacharias
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to… — Charles Darwin
Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths… — Henry Chesbrough
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be… — Jamais Cascio
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue,… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are… — Phillip E. Johnson
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when… — Ezra Taft Benson
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great… — Pope Francis
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right -… — Howard Hodgkin
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if… — Stanley Hauerwas
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions. — Ludwig von Mises
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one… — Robert Anton Wilson
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.… — Richard Rorty
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature… — Marcus Aurelius
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that… — Roy Jenkins
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson

Who Wrote These Assumes Quotes

205 authors contributed a total of 223 Assumes Quotes, led by these top contributors: