Assuming Quotations

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

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

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

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.

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

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.

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

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

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

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

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

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

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

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

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.

Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

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

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

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.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

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

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.

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

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

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

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience...

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

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

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.

I was surprised, because I was assuming that either the no-limit would raise conversion so high that it would win, or that just keeping the threshold high, which would keep the average order value high, would win. I didn't expect the middle.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

I guess I'm just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I'm assuming that everyone else does, too.

When the new executive meeting center is complete, we intend to more aggressively target group business, with a goal of assuming a leadership position in this area.

My gut tells me that these guys will renegotiate the price and there will be a significant haircut. Assuming they're reasonable and want to get the deal done, there's got to be some middle ground they can find.

make plans, assuming that there is a strike, and when they wake up in the morning, we all hope that they will be pleasantly surprised.

Let's be honest, Pedro for five innings is better than no Pedro at all. With the way our bullpen is going to be structured, having a day off Tuesday, it might not be so bad to have him out there for only five innings -- assuming he's healthy and that's the most important thing.

Monster's vision in centralizing the Diversity recruiting business and internal diversity workforce initiatives reflects the future progression of the function of the Chief Diversity Officer. Clearly, the companies that secure a competitive advantage will be those that assign diversity to their overall growth strategy. Assuming the role of Chief Diversity Officer for Monster, a visionary company that created the online recruiting industry, is truly exciting.

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

I don't know that they took any gas, but I'm assuming they did. I don't see any other reason to drill a gas tank.

Love... asks that you disavow your attempt to enlarge your own identity by diminishing that of others. It asks that you cease your effort to safeguard your own claim to well-being by assuming the inferiority of others' claims. It asks, actually, that you die.

Lots of players can do it for 10-15 games but we want to see them do it for 40, 50, 100 or 200 games, winning titles again. That will be the big test. Everyone's assuming they will go from strength to strength. I hope they do because it's an exciting team. They haven't played a physical team away for a while and I hope they have learned the lesson that as well as all the good football you play you have to stand up to those teams.

We're just going to be perched here in our La-Z-Boys and watching the game. I'm assuming Sam is going to root for the Steelers, but sometimes he roots for the other team just to get at me.

We're concerned. As we get closer to 9/11, we may see -- assuming that we'll get negative results -- ... some hoaxes being played, ... We're hoping this is another one.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

I would think that if I'm a guy going out and playing on Saturday that I'm assuming my future playing depends largely on what I do.

I don't want him to go out there without having completely built up the arm strength to where he should be. I want him in an environment where we can build him up without any kind of risk. We've gotten a lot further along with that in a short period of time. I think he's on schedule to do everything we need him to do and not have any problems. That's the way I'm assuming it's going to go, and we'll keep progressing.

I don't think we know where the bottom is, ... We've had several quarters in a row where each quarter gets worse. We've been assuming things probably won't pick up a lot for another year or two and we try to plan our expenses accordingly.