Assuming Quotes
1443 quotes by 1146 authors
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I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since…
— Joss Whedon
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How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same…
— Sarah Dessen
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Dan was suspicious. "How did he find out where we were staying?" Amy frowned. "I think that's the message inside the message. He wants us…
— Gordon Korman
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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true…
— Alfie Kohn
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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all…
— Haruki Murakami
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I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling…
— Larry Crabb
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... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the…
— Diane Arbus
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There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might…
— Lauren Willig
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Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on…
— Philip K. Dick
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They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other…
— Bell Hooks
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It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when…
— Mercedes Lackey
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And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
— Maureen Johnson
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The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.
— David McGee
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This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not…
— Deb Caletti
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The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices…
— Colin Wilson
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Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.
— Anne Frank
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I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly…
— Michelle Sagara
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Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not…
— Aime Cesaire
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