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Quotes About Assumption

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239
~ David Leavitt
Assume makes an ass out of you and me.
~ David Leavitt
You will act not on what your eyes and ears show you, but on what your mind thinks probable.
~ David Liss
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
~ Stephen Fry
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
~ Anne Sullivan Macy
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.
~ James L. Buckley
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
~ William Blake
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
~ H.L. Mencken
Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—
~ Richelle Mead
I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.
~ Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
~ Ricky Williams
In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that.
~ Charlie Day
I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.
~ Craig Zobel
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
~ Maureen Johnson
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.
~ John C. Calhoun
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score
~ Ricky Davis
The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.
~ Candace Bushnell
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
~ Jane Austen
It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.
~ Tessa Crowley, Chaos Theory
Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.
~ Criss Jami
If that phone ain't ringing, I assume it still ain't you" Randy Travis
~ Carole Townsend