371 Quotes About Assuming

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

Saw your list of 10 most devastating injuries. How can David Boston not be included? I'm assuming you've seen the Dolphins' 'offense,' if you can really call it that.

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Assuming the spark does not happen, it can go on much longer, ... Nobody wants it to stop. We don't want to contemplate sharply higher rates and prices. The Japanese and Chinese don't want to contemplate it either.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.