Quotes About Assumption

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

The bus had a lavatory in the wayback rear, which no one ever made any attempt to use, and I remember consciously deciding to trust that the passengers had good reason for not using it instead of venturing in and discovering that reason for myself.

one is that you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life "OK " as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.

The counter woman seemed unaware that Toni Ware was affecting the exact accent and cadence of her own speech. The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

One, one is that you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life "OK " as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.

Assuming he had knowledge and wealth to leave to his descendants was mere arrogance, Yoshiro now realized.

Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.

Aside from a few odd words in Hebrew, I took it completely for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.

It is what we think we already know that often prevents us from learning.

The girl is Catholic with waist-length brown hair. You can't remember her name: Mary? Catherine? You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person. You assume she thinks she is thanking you for letting her cheat and feels better cheating from an almost white person.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.

You wonder what else you have always believed, believed without foundation.

She wants me to take out Patton." Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?" "No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple.

I assume you forgot that your sister's wedding would require a new gown. Or a gown at all." "At least one person is going to be naked," I say

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. They followed the rules, and the rules had been proven to work.

She'd been so cozy in the cocoon of their relationship. She assumed she got to stay there forever.

This is myself. You've always had some idea of me that doesn't exist.

consistent—like plain chocolate bars, the same all the way through. Those quizzes assumed that if people were brave in one situation, they'd be brave in another, but Sugar didn't think this was true. Or maybe it was just her. Maybe this was

People don't really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don't live up to their snap judgments.