Assuming Quotes - Page 9

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"

Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.