Assuming Quotes

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security. I had to say something. Kelly's nomination would go against who President Obama is.