Assuming Quotes

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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature… — Eleanor Roosevelt
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of… — Khaled Hosseini
If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone… — Ally Carter
Intelligent women make the mistake of assuming that if they hold a higher degree, they can hold their own in a political debate, and they… — Sherry Argov
New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, weâ€™re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, thereâ€™s… — Bill Maher
...pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or… — Jenny Lawson
I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the… — Graeme Simsion
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what… — Veronica Roth
I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself killed? To break… — Rick Riordan
I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing. — Ann Aguirre
as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been… — Charles Bukowski
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he… — James F. Cooper
Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal… — Scott Young
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — Walter Bagehot
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume… — William James
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong. — Albert Pollard
If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. — Noam Chomsky
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and… — Stephen Covey
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is… — Pearl S. Buck
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman

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