Quotes of: Assuming Keyword

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

G.K. Chesterton

I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do. -Greg House

House

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.

Isaiah Washington

We can assume that those who ‘have it all’ and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.

Ellen J. Barrier

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

James Nasmyth

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

Jack Jones

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

Shaquille O'Neal

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

Katharine Weymouth

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

Robert Casey

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

James J. Gibson

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Don Ellis

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Hugh Hopper

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Tricia Helfer

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

Christian Borle

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

Armando Iannucci

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

Aaron Swartz