Quotes About Assumption

When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.

He was still assuming the guilty party was a man, which was likely, after all. Women killed with poison; men made a science of inflicting pain.

Guilty until proven innocent - A

Sutton, I have to talk to you," Mr. Mercer said... "I'm sorry," she said preemptively. "You don't even know what I'm going to say yet.

Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant...' is Emily Dickinson's advice.... I've been struck by how often slant is confused with bias - as though having a point of view, a set of assumptions, or a firmly held opinion is in itself unscrupulous or unfair. And as though neutrality is the mark of fairness or truth.

I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind of proximity.

When people feel they know who to blame or to snicker at, they seldom feel the need to know more.

Dad's "Theory of Arrogance"—that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway play.

The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

He could not have loved Virginia Gamely more, and he wondered if what he assumed lay at such great distance were present in this very city -or even in Virginia herself, if the future were to be fair and imaginative enough to take refuge in a single soul.

It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

The popular Press always talk as if only the rich committed adultery. One really can't imagine a more snobbish assumption.

lie. You're assuming that nothing you can do will change them." "But that's true," Lou countered. "I can't change them." "Quite right." "Then I don't understand your point." "That's because you surrendered too early," Yusuf smiled. "While

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda.

That's all I know, except that he's probably straight." The landlady gave him a sly smile. "That's what he told you? He's probably straight?" He laughed. "Well, he's currently in love with Bruce Springsteen, so I just assumed he was." "Now wait a minute.

Ze zei: 'Je denkt steeds weer dat jij de uitzondering bent.' 'Wie denkt dat?' 'Ik.' 'Dat denkt iedereen,' zei ik, 'daarom trouwen mensen, daarom maken ze kinderen, daarom gaan ze door met leven, omdat ze denken dat het voor iedereen geldt maar niet voor hen, omdat ze denken dat zij de uitzondering zijn.

I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.