Assume Quotes

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

I would assume the case will never be closed.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired.