I Assume Quotes

83 quotes by 75 authors

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them;… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like… — John Updike
Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it. — Joan Benoit
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. — Heywood Hale Broun
There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that… — Robert A. Heinlein
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this… — James L. Kraft
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th,… — Miklos Laszlo
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am… — Jeremy Paxman
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I donâ€™t care if people… — William S. Burroughs
I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to… — Neal Stephenson
France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat. — Nicolas Sarkozy
Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I… — Paul Bowles
The most important rule is to play great defense, not great offense. Everyday I assume every position I have is wrong. I know where my… — Paul Tudor Jones
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume… — Alma Guillermoprieto
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I… — Robert Scheer
And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume… — Plato
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something… — Ira Glass

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