logo

Quotes About Assume

Lord Caterham has that solemn and shocked look which Englishmen assume when a religious ceremony is in progress.
~ Agatha Christie
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
~ Frank Rich
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
~ Gavin Newsom
If I've learned anything, it's to live in the moment, and the gift that cancer gives you is, you just assume I'm only here today, and I am going to seize that moment and cherish it.
~ Kathy Giusti
Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.
~ Shaolin
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
~ Jimmy Wales
Prospective users hear the blockchain hype and assume the hypothetical plans are real products that exist now — though "the blockchain could" is a phrase that really means "the blockchain doesn't," because if it did, they'd say that.
~ David Gerard
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
~ Johann Most
There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
~ Basmah bint Saud
If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.
~ Kristen Soltis Anderson
Stalin, as many in the party soon began to perceive, was acting in the manner of a political boss. But we should take care not to assume that he saw himself in this light.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
~ Robert Casey
If you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
~ Alain de Botton
Whether fellowship is perceived as participation or partnership, in either case it implies a responsibility to fulfill our function in the body. We usually don't think of fellowship in terms of fulfilling a responsibility, but that is because we have lost sight of the biblical meaning of fellowship. Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.
~ Jerry Bridges
People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
~ Donald Trump
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
~ Robert Casey
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
~ Asa Gray
learned from them that he couldn't wait for Fanny to share, "we survived living in New York. Fight with me," he said. "Scream. You have nice big teeth; bite me." Fanny's lovely mouth was shaping the words, in horror, "Bite me?" "But don't just go off inside yourself and assume
~ Alice Walker
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.
~ Roger Caillois
she assumed the charge of their education, and performed the duties of an instructress as none, save a mother, is capable of.
~ Lucy Mack Smith
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
~ Chris Murphy
Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps.
~ John Perkins
It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others.
~ Scot McKnight