Quotes About Assumption

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

I've always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event." "Why would you ever think that?

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.

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.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

I don't think the guys I played with have ever had a problem with me. People can make up what they want to think.

I always assumed I'd marry a black woman.

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut? Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up! Oh, you flatter me, Brian, Chrestomanci said.

The Victorians who had built the place had not intended importunate men friends to batter down the girls' doors. They were a solid job. But in the view of the thin woman's calm assumption that breaking in was within my powers, I didn't care to fail. I broke the lock with my heel, in the end. The wood gave way on the jamb inside the room, and the door opened with a crash.

Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

So we must design our machines on the assumption that people will make errors.

we must design our machines on the assumption that people will make errors.

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life - that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. Eisenhower's parents assumed, and taught their children, that if their children weren't alive, their family couldn't function. (page 34)

Como dice el viejo refrán, a veces el peligro no reside en lo que ignoras, sino en lo que crees saber.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling

Even if Clark's assertion stemmed from a false assumption and Forrest ordered no massacre, he probably didn't have to; there was enough rancor between his men and the armed former slaves, as well as the Tennessee Unionists, that about all he had to do to produce a massacre was issue no order against one. This