Assuming Quotes - Page 12

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

The IMF acts as the collection agent for global bondholders. Its projections begin by assuming that all debts can be paid, if economies will cut wages and wiping out pension funds so as to pay banks and bondholders.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

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

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

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

I have to remember to not criticize other networks for other shows when I'm doing interviews because some day I'm going to be going to them, looking for a job, I'm assuming.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

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

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

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.

The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.

The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

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

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

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.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

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.