Quotes About Assumption

With us city girls, there is an assumption that we have the space to raise our voice.

It's easy to assume that just because you make something in small volumes, not using many tools, that there is integrity and care - that is a false assumption.

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.

Most voters assume because these political 'pros' are on TV or write for national papers, they know politics. Sadly, most don't have a clue.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

Don't misjudge my self-confidence.

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.

It can be embarrassing being associated with a character like Finchy - people naturally assume you're just like him. Some people come up and tell me the most appalling sexist or racist joke they know because they see me as him.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

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.

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

We're disinclined to believe that someone who's an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist.

The common assumption is that public punishments died out in the new great metropolises because they'd been judged useless. Everyone was too busy being industrious to bother to trail some transgressor through the city crowds like some volunteer scarlet letter. But according to the documents I found, that wasn't it at all. They didn't fizzle out because they were ineffective. They were stopped because they were far too brutal.

I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn't know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do).

They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about eating animals, they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

God's love for humankind is one of our present culture's allpervasive, invisible, unquestioned, and thus unconscious assumptions. When war shattered this assumption, American soldiers in Vietnam lost a sustaining idea.

Anlamad???n?z bir insan? delidir diye nitelemek o kadar kolayd?r ki!

It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

In political situations, we should be careful not to assume "everyone is wrong" and "just compromise.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.