Assuming Quotes - Page 8

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future

The past assumes the nature of the present.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Of course, the most troubling question is why do these people assume we're gay?