Quotes of: Assuming Keyword

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Tom Stoppard

And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

Martin Van Creveld

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

Nicolas Sarkozy

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Pat Paulsen

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

Stanley Fish

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

Sean Patrick Maloney

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

Steven Sinofsky

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

Trent Reznor

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Kevin Hart

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

Li Keqiang

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

Muriel Barbery

We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

Madeleine M. Kunin

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

Sloane Crosley

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

Marty Rubin

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.

Maurice Jarre

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

John Perry Barlow

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

Mark Skousen

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Jean-Francois Lyotard