Top 487 Assuming Quotes & Sayings

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

You and I make the mistake of assuming that the Republican Party doesn't like the media. You and I make the mistake of assuming the Republican Party is as suspicious and distrustful of the media as you and I are, but they're not.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

Assuming I'm home and don't have an event, I'll have a massage or I'll talk on the phone.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing to understand the context of the passage....assuming a partial report is a false report...neglecting to interpret difficult passages in light of clear ones; basing a teaching on an obscure passage; forgetting that the Bible uses nontechnical, everyday language; failing to remember the Bible uses different literary devices.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.

A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

I think a lot of people go into 'The Bachelor' assuming it's going to work out, but I went in knowing there are no guarantees.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.

Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.

The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.

I’m assuming those are Daimons. (Susan) No, they’re Avon ladies. (Ravyn)

In so many reviews that I'm reading of 'The Florida Project,' everyone is assuming it's my second film.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.