Quotes of: Assuming Keyword

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Sara Sheridan

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Vaclav Havel

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

Martin Kippenberger

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

Stanley Hauerwas

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

Divergent

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Elantris

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

The Forgotten Soldier

Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Peter Zumthor

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Damian Loeb

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.

Leon Krier

There is no growth in assuming. For it does not give, it takes away.

Husband Rules: A Guy's Playbook on How to Win in Marriage

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Herland

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Hope for Hard Times

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

The Mysterious Island

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

Minutes Before Sunset

Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception... that assumes you're wiser than them.

Master of Stupidity

Dealing with one who feels smarter than you, let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

Master of Stupidity

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.

The Lighthouse