371 Quotes About Assuming

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

For the $20, you're not winning anything? That's what they're assuming when they send the $20 in. If you look at the literature really close, at the bottom of it, it says they don't have anything to do with the sweepstakes.

Assuming that it holds up -- and I believe it will -- this is a theory that both greatly clarifies the way that most stars in the universe probably form, and also ties the properties of the solar system and Earth itself back to the conditions in the larger astrophysical environment in which we formed.

I don't think we know where the bottom is, ... We've had several quarters in a row where each quarter gets worse. We've been assuming things probably won't pick up a lot for another year or two and we try to plan our expenses accordingly.

We are assuming that we will receive that construction permit and then we can start selling the bonds. That's our preliminary schedule.

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.