Quotes About Assumption

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

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

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

What did he do to you?" I asked her, ignoring the darkening of the bear's looming face. "Nothing," she declared, enunciating distinctly. "Do you think every man wants to get me in his bed?" "Every man who's not dead already—or gelded.

D'où ça sort, ça ? Toutes les filles n'aiment pas les comédies romantiques ! - Je suis sûre que tu fais partie de celles qui les aiment. Ca m'énerve qu'il me voie comme ça. D'autant qu'il a raison.

There's a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that's the only thing women are meant for.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

That human nature and society can have conflicting demands, and hence that a whole society can be sick, is an assumption which was made very explicitly by Freud, most extensively in his Civilization and Its Discontent.

there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent

Women cheat for love, the common assumption goes, but men? They cheat for sex. And this assumption is all the more strongly reinforced when the sex in question is anonymous, transactional, or commercial.

While we routinely call for more vaccine testing, and more human trials, the unspoken assumption is that we do not intend our children to be the subjects of those trials.

Ned Parminter was in love. He assumed it must be love, because it felt like indigestion – or, to be frank, Irritable Bowel Syndrome – but in a good way.

When you're a kid, you just assume your parents were always grown-up.

The reverse side of Churchill's unquestioning belief in the greatness of the British race Ã¢â'¬â€œ which so fortified him in the Second World War Ã¢â'¬â€œ was his dangerous assumption of the inferiority of other races

We assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn't well-rounded?

most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

Fue la arrogancia de un hombre que se creía tan seguro del amor de una mujer que no consideraba merecedor de esfuerzo hacerse merecedor de él.

Ten Worst Feelings: Cheated on. Over thinking. Lied to. Heart broken. Not cared for. Losing. Scared. Assuming. Nervous. Letting go.

I guess that I have been thinking about how graceful you were, and although it is none of my business, I wondered whether you might not be paying a price for being that way. . . . People want to have an easy fix on other people, and since you are Cindi Coeur, it's easy to assume that someone who satirizes our shortcomings has set herself above us.

You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If you started a jigsaw puzzle not knowing whether all the pieces were in the box, it would not be a fun exercise.