Assuming Quotes

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.

You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?