You Assume Quotes

#1. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

Howard Zinn

#3. Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.

Frederick Lenz

#4. You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

Max Brooks

#5. It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.

Sarah Addison Allen

#6. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

Criss Jami

#7. So who was she? (Vane)
Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang)
Didn't know you were fond of men. I'll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Ellen DeGeneres

#10. Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

Jerry Seinfeld

#11. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

James Victore

#12. You assume that I don't know and I do care. The truth is the other way around.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#13. It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

Seth Shostak

#14. A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.

Zig Ziglar

#15. The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

Frederick Lenz

#16. When you have a cat you assume certain responsibilities that, in a spiritual sense, transcend those of a marital or a business relationship.

Kinky Friedman

#17. Before you assume. Learn.
Before you judge. Understand.
Before you hurt. Feel.
Before you say. Think.

Unknown

#18. You assume that my previous sexual encounters were completely fulfilling, but you're wrong. You gave me what I've never had - love and sex together. You're the only one who has ever been my lover in the true sense.

Sylvain Reynard

#19. People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Michael Symon

#20. Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.

Gunter Grass

#21. You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Rick Riordan

#22. Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Charlie Munger

#23. Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.

Neale Donald Walsch

#24. Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Bertrand Russell

#25. Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

Napoleon Hill

#26. when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.

Milton William Cooper

#27. Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. I think you assume everyone is going to be your enemy. And by doing that, you sort of make it come true.

Jeff Garvin

#29. I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

Hutch Parker

#30. You assume you would be in darkness without light only because you have never been without the sun.

Cydney Lawson

#31. She read aloud, as she understood better that way. In reading aloud you assume authority for what you are reading. There are people who read very loudly, and who appear to be giving their word of honor for what they are reading.

Victor Hugo

#32. The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

John C. Lilly

#33. Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

Gus Van Sant

#34. Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental capacity.

Emma Paul

#35. If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

#36. Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.

Felix Unger

#37. If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

Martin Fleischmann

#38. I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

Ellen Kushner

#39. To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

Tom Wolfe

#40. If you assume you are better than someone,
you make yourself relies on that assumption.

Toba Beta

#41. You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Alexandre Dumas

#42. I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

Billy Mills

#43. Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

Fritz Leiber

#44. You know what happens when you assume things?"
I left out a sigh. "You make an ass out of you and me."
...
"No, you just make an ass out of you. Me, I would never be this assy

Tara Sivec

#45. The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

Lee Carroll

#46. Why do you assume I'm human?
I wasn't born; I was created just like this.
First I was an idea.
Then I came into being, charged with a very important task.
I've come to find the monster.

Eliza Granville

#47. Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

Marion Milner

#48. At that moment, she remembered something. Something Sazed had said. You must love him enough to trust his wishes, he had told her. It isn't love unless you learn to respect him - not what you assume is best, but what he actually wants ... .

Brandon Sanderson

#49. The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

Robert Greene

#50. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

Noam Chomsky

#51. Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

Lisa Kleypas

#52. Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

Gayle Forman

#53. Being mad at someone for acting exactly the way you assume they'll act is no one's fault but your own.

Sarah Addison Allen

#54. If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

#55. you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

Alexandre Dumas

#56. If I say to you "There is a man who dresses like one of us." Would you assume I was talking to myself about myself?

George Curtis

#57. You don't want to miss out on people. If you assume everyone is out to get you, then you're going to shut them down before they have a chance to prove you wrong.

Jessica Park

#58. Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical - as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist.

T.H. White

#59. Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

Jeffrey Archer

#60. Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?"
"He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.

Grace Burrowes

#61. No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

Ashly Lorenzana

#62. There's no such thing as a normal highschool experience, Thorny. You assume everyone else is happy all he time and living an ideal life. You don't get that other people are pretending too.

Chelsea Sedoti

#63. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

Barbra Streisand

#64. If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science.

R.C. Sproul

#65. I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

Jenny Lewis

#66. When you are sitting on a three-legged stool and you've kicked out all three legs, but you're still sitting upright, must you assume that you're so good, you levitate? Or must you assume that you were sitting on the ground all along?

Lydia Netzer

#67. When you assume responsibility for what you experience
and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship,
that is the same as forgiveness.
When you hold someone responsible for what you experience,
you lose power.

Gary Zukav

#68. When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

Indra Nooyi

#69. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

John Sununu

#70. If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

Noam Chomsky

#71. You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...

Rachel Caine

#72. The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

T.H. White

#73. If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Scott Hahn

#74. Why do you assume it's something you've done, and something you can undo at will? I'm not some arithmetic problem just waiting for you to show your work properly, Locke. Did

Scott Lynch

#75. O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

Andrei Platonov

#76. Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes humans objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created to be sick and commanded to be well. - CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Lawrence M. Krauss

#77. You think I'd stop with a kiss?"
"You assume I'd want you to?

Kresley Cole

#78. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

Tom Stoppard

#79. When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

Bill Gates

#80. The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

Daniel Kahneman

#81. If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

Idries Shah

#82. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children
respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite.
It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things
you forget even to teach that they learn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#83. So you assume we go around painting ourselves with pitch and swooping from rooftops to devour innocents, and call ourselves things like Shale Swiftwing, Beloved of the Goddess, Scout-in-Shadows.

Max Gladstone

#84. Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

Ronda Rousey

#85. You don't know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?

Megan Whalen Turner

#86. Observing is not the same as experiencing.' Li Wei gestures angrily at my stump. 'You sit there and judge others from a safe distance every day. You assume because you watch us, you understand us. But you don't.

Richelle Mead

#87. Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.

Jack Kornfield

#88. Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Morley Safer

#89. Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think.

Timothy Pina

#90. Why do you assume I forced him to do anything, darlin'?"
"Don't," I gritted out, "call me that."
Cole's light brows rose. "I guess that answers my question about why you lied to Alban. Care to
explain how you even know my brother?

Alexandra Bracken

#91. If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

Bruce Robinson

#92. Shakespeare said, Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Dale Carnegie

#93. Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong - why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.

Kate Cann

#94. Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Nathan Wolfe

#95. If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

Neville Goddard

#96. Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Willie Mays

#97. I believe in karma ... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.

Scott Adams

#98. One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Imran Khan

#99. You can safely assume you've remade God in your own image when it turns out God hates the same people you do. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Janis Bragan Balda

#100. Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France.

Cuthbert Soup