Quotes of: Assuming Keyword

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

J. J. Abrams

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Gustav Mahler

A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

Gary Zukav

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

Jimmy Sangster

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Jared Harris

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

Cate Blanchett

[to Malloy] Lestat: I assume I need no introduction.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Officer Michaels: I'm assuming you all have guns and crack!

Superbad

With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.

Kim Shaw

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

Ed Balls

Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored

Life

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Yoko Ono

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Romola Garai

My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by question...

A Confession

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogm...

Heretics

Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that pa...

Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding

Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something you shouldn't assume... that God sees the world like you do; one thing at a time, from just one spot. Seems to me that he's supposed to be everywhere...

Small Favor

It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more facts than they can process effectively. Giving them even more ...

The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling

So, take the idea of "rights" and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: the source of a right is power, a right is a function of power. Take two trays of a weighing scale: put a gram on one, and on the other, put a ton. On o...

We

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

Curtis Sittenfeld