Assuming Quotes

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Saw a lost dog sign with a pic of the dog and a little boy hugging it. I'm assuming the kids safe and we're just focusing on the pooch.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

I think [Vladimir] Putin probably assumes he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically it would be unpopular for a politician to be making a deal.

Assuming I'm home and don't have an event, I'll have a massage or I'll talk on the phone.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good.

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

Assume that everybody can see what you are doing and then live your life that way - you will find that generally you are treated right.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

We have every reason to assume the worst.

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.