Assuming Quotes
If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.
I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.
Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.
How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.
A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.
The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.
How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.
I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.
As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.
True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.
Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.
Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.
If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.