Assuming Quotes
1443 quotes by 1146 authors
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation,…
— James T. Conway
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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.
— Joan Benoit
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Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume
— Drake
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Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
— Norman Cousins
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I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in…
— George Bernard Shaw
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You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.
— Katie Couric
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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and…
— Deepak Chopra
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
— Oscar Wilde
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I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare
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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.
— Pierre Loti
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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
— Aileen Fisher
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Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
— Heywood Hale Broun
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We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.
— Shirley Jones
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The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened…
— Anagarika Govinda
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