Quotes of: Assuming Keyword

But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself a false wholeness, a false individuality. Modern democracy is made up of millions of frictional parts all asserting ...

Apocalypse

She whistled when she noticed my back. I assume because of my injuries. I mean, my ass just isn't that spectacular.

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

If I were handicapped, I’d travel by horse. Well, that’s assuming my wheelchair would be stable on the horse’s back. I’d be a coffee addict and porn historian.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

Into the Wild

The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us... Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.

Reaching Beyond the Veil

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

A Secret Affair

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness

Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

The Midnight Mayor

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

The Lords and the New Creatures

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

Lock and Key

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

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

The happiest days of our lives [are] days such as this when one’s work [begins] to reach fruition and to assume the contours of its imminent completion. (A. Herzbruch, in A Murder at Dragon Bay)

A Murder at Dragon Bay

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

This will be the greatest discovery since the extinction of dinosaurs.” “Assuming dinosaurs did exist, that is,” Derkein said. Alex shook her head. “Couldn’t just let me have this moment, could you?

Talisman of El

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Père Goriot

​"One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train along its given path.

Train

If I had a dollar for every time a random woman walked up to me and tried to seduce me, I'd have 50 cents. That's assuming drag queens are half price.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.

Time and Free Will

If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

Urgency.

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of hi...

War and Peace

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't b...

Mitch Daniels