Assuming Quotes - Page 14

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

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.

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

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.

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

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

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

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

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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

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

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

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

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.

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.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

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

Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another.

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

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

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

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.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.