Quotes about Assumed

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. Votes: 1

If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay. Votes: 1

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. Votes: 1

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. Votes: 1

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business. Votes: 1

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. Votes: 1

I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest. Votes: 1

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. Votes: 1

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Votes: 1

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption. Votes: 1

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. Votes: 1

Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. Votes: 1

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. Votes: 1

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. Votes: 1

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there. Votes: 1

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. Votes: 1

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! Votes: 1

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head. Votes: 1

I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion. Votes: 1

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. Votes: 1

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally. Votes: 1

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. Votes: 1

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. Votes: 1

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. Votes: 1

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. Votes: 1

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment. Votes: 1

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity. Votes: 0

I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights. Votes: 0

...guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven. Votes: 0

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent Votes: 0

That which He has not assumed He has not healed. Votes: 0

It was always assumed that I would go to college. Votes: 0

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity. Votes: 0

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed. Votes: 0

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. Votes: 0

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. Votes: 0

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film. Votes: 0

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. Votes: 0

He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it. Votes: 0

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. Votes: 0

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. Votes: 0

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. Votes: 0

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend. Votes: 0

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. Votes: 0

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. Votes: 0

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Votes: 0

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. Votes: 0

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. Votes: 0

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it. Votes: 0

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. Votes: 0

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again. Votes: 0

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. Votes: 0

I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth. Votes: 0

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. Votes: 0

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage. Votes: 0

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Votes: 0

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. Votes: 0

The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself. Votes: 0

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Votes: 0

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not! Votes: 0

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. Votes: 0

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. Votes: 0

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. Votes: 0

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too. Votes: 0

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? Votes: 0

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. Votes: 0

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. Votes: 0

The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed. Votes: 0

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Votes: 0

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. Votes: 0

The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist. Votes: 0

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market. Votes: 0

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. Votes: 0

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt. Votes: 0

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. Votes: 0

I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong. Votes: 0

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends. Votes: 0

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. Votes: 0

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. Votes: 0

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies. Votes: 0

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Votes: 0

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. Votes: 0

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen. Votes: 0

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. Votes: 0

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford. Votes: 0

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. Votes: 0

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. Votes: 0

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! Votes: 0

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. Votes: 0

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. Votes: 0

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. Votes: 0

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match. Votes: 0

I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name! Votes: 0

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Votes: 0

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. Votes: 0

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. Votes: 0

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving. Votes: 0

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history. Votes: 0

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. Votes: 0

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. Votes: 0

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird. Votes: 0

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. Votes: 0

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. Votes: 0

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. Votes: 0

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. Votes: 0

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder. Votes: 0

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis Votes: 0

We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States. Votes: 0

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. Votes: 0

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter "“ that would be my life. Votes: 0

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news. Votes: 0

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. Votes: 0

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business. Votes: 0

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere. Votes: 0

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought. Votes: 0

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas Votes: 0

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. Votes: 0

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be. Votes: 0

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others Votes: 0

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen. Votes: 0

CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake. Votes: 0

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. Votes: 0

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables. Votes: 0

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. Votes: 0

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions. Votes: 0

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not. Votes: 0

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. Votes: 0

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start. Votes: 0

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories. Votes: 0

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience. Votes: 0

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one. Votes: 0

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. Votes: 0

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. Votes: 0

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. Votes: 0

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules. Votes: 0

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Votes: 0

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget. Votes: 0

I'd heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I'd always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not. Votes: 0

On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. Votes: 0

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla." Votes: 0

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt. Votes: 0

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. Votes: 0

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla. Votes: 0

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed Votes: 0

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case. Votes: 0

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed. Votes: 0

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament. Votes: 0

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed. Votes: 0

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived. Votes: 0

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods. Votes: 0

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies. Votes: 0

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one. Votes: 0

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities. Votes: 0

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free. Votes: 0

I had never asked a discourse question until Uruguay. I had always assumed, I think like many others, I had no questions to ask [Osho]. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism. Votes: 0

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself. Votes: 0

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful. Votes: 0

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo. Votes: 0

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book. Votes: 0

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I'll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too. Votes: 0

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Votes: 0

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves? Votes: 0

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. Votes: 0

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace. Votes: 0

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again. Votes: 0

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour. Votes: 0

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult. Votes: 0

For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor. Votes: 0

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it. Votes: 0

MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. Votes: 0

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. Votes: 0

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me. Votes: 0

Catherine! Get out of my way. I need to have a word with that thing." Since she usually called Bones "filthy animal", I assumed "thing" meant Ian. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. Votes: 0

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence. Votes: 0

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is. Votes: 0

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling. Votes: 0

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. Votes: 0

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing. Votes: 0

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind, Votes: 0

Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling. Votes: 0

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature. Votes: 0

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction. Votes: 0

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military. Votes: 0

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour. Votes: 0

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. Votes: 0

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity. Votes: 0

I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection. Votes: 0

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed. Votes: 0

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular. Votes: 0

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder. Votes: 0

I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it. Votes: 0

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will. Votes: 0

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. Votes: 0

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. Votes: 0

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. Votes: 0

There's a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that's the only thing women are meant for. Votes: 0

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor. Votes: 0

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me. Votes: 0

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it. Votes: 0

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be. Votes: 0

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental? Votes: 0

He said he came in second place, so I assumed there were only two competitors. But you never know with love, there may have been a third party involved. Votes: 0

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot. Votes: 0

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled. Votes: 0

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. Votes: 0

I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling. Votes: 0

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her. Votes: 0

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment. Votes: 0

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's. Votes: 0

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element. Votes: 0

California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie. Votes: 0

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. Votes: 0

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide. Votes: 0

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt. Votes: 0

I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior. Votes: 0

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. Votes: 0

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments. Votes: 0

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy Votes: 0

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe. Votes: 0

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong. Votes: 0

I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends. Votes: 0

The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. Votes: 0

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed. Votes: 0

I assumed, "Well, I must've sounded like Conan O'Brien, or a reasonable facsimile or something." And there I am in the movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ]. I was very lucky. Votes: 0

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life. Votes: 0

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself. Votes: 0

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there. Votes: 0

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces. Votes: 0

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not. Votes: 0

Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies. Votes: 0

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. Votes: 0

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial." Votes: 0

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view. Votes: 0

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14). Votes: 0

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich. Votes: 0

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good Votes: 0

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. Votes: 0

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic. Votes: 0

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview. Votes: 0

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting. Votes: 0

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics. Votes: 0

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled? Votes: 0

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite. Votes: 0

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look. Votes: 0

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Votes: 0

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened. Votes: 0

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none. Votes: 0

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things. Votes: 0

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that. Votes: 0

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. Votes: 0

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Votes: 0

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his— Votes: 0

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people. Votes: 0

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them. Votes: 0

Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence. Votes: 0

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar. Votes: 0

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools. Votes: 0

A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action. Votes: 0

Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture history are interpretations based upon assumed culture process. Votes: 0

It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off. Votes: 0

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property. Votes: 0

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career. Votes: 0

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. Votes: 0

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that. Votes: 0

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries. Votes: 0

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write. Votes: 0

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. Votes: 0

When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage. Votes: 0

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think. Votes: 0

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say. Votes: 0

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs. Votes: 0

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way. Votes: 0

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty. Votes: 0

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult. Votes: 0

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth. Votes: 0

Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes. Votes: 0

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Votes: 0

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough. Votes: 0

A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, evenbeauty. Votes: 0

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman. Votes: 0

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me. Votes: 0

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in. Votes: 0