Assuming Quotes

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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,… — Arnold Bennett
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth,… — Ravi Zacharias
I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good. — Eric S. Nylund
It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault.… — Douglas Coupland
Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So donâ€™t ever put off telling someone how you feel… — Alexandra Potter
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless… — Bell Hooks
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and… — William Stafford
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are continuously challenged to discover new works of cultureâ€”and, in the process, we donâ€™t allow any one of them to assume a weight in… — Alain de Botton
No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from… — Bryan Davis
Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and… — Cassandra Clare
Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong. — Laurell K. Hamilton
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish… — Anne Lamott
I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection… — Lisa Kleypas
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocriticalâ€”as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency canâ€™t exist. — T.H. White
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save… — Hannah Arendt
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if… — Barbara Kingsolver
If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isnâ€™t sending you the â€˜letâ€™s go back to my… — Nora Roberts
And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try… — Robert Jordan

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