I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
In all my fantasies, I always assumed I would get married and have six children along the way with the greatest of ease.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?
Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.
I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they were assumed not to exist.
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
I always assumed that my otherness was a curse - that I would be held back by my Asian and queer identities.
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
Because of what I did and where I came from, people just assumed I'd climbed every mountain in my country.
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
I'm from the Midwest, so I always assumed, 'Well, I have to think badly of myself, because that's being humble.'
One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.
CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake.
I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.
I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.
Imams seldom condemn terror. And in their silence, in the void, acceptance - encouragement even - is assumed.
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.
I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.
If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.
I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.
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