Assuming Quotes

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Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue… — Greg L. Bahnsen
What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we… — Douglas Adams
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would… — Bill Bryson
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I… — William P. Young
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced… — Wendell Berry
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for… — Noam Chomsky
Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. â€¦ Why canâ€™t they… — Hanif Kureishi
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneâ€™s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good,… — John Adams
I assume I don't need an introduction. — Anne Rice
If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking… — Leslie Feinberg
I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown… — Aldous Huxley
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,… — Norman Maclean
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of… — Charles Baudelaire
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks soâ€”bad. — Chuck Palahniuk
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step… — Salvador Dali

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