Best 478 quotes in «assuming quotes» category

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.

I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security. I had to say something. Kelly's nomination would go against who President Obama is.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be very careful that we don't assume that if we are 'X' faithful in evangelism, then we will see 'Y' results right now. It doesn't work like that.

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.

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

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.

I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

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

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis.