Assuming Quotes - Page 15

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

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

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

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

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

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.

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

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

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.

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

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.

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