Assumption Quotes

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there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy… — Tina Fey
The fate of millions of peopleâ€”indeed the future of the black community itselfâ€”may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to… — Michelle Alexander
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to… — Pema Chodron
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe,… — Peter Singer
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. — Rick Yancey
...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore.… — Jonathan Maberry
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was… — Julian Barnes
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that… — John Green
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of… — Dean Young
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. — Muriel Barbery
You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of… — Maggie Stiefvater
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to… — Ellen DeGeneres
we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments — Richard Carlson
My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for… — Jennifer Crusie
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve… — Alain de Botton
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which… — Robert M. Pirsig
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naÃ¯ve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich.… — Cheryl Strayed
There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*… — James A. Baldwin

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