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

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

When it comes to the iconic moments, you sort of have to take all of those things and distill them the same way the costumers do and everybod Distill them and then find your own. The most iconic moment in the movie is, assuming they do, when they assemble.

Introverts often assume what's inside is visible on the outside. We don't have to invent or fake the emotion; we just need to allow it to be seen!

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.

No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

I'm a very highly opinionated person, and so people assume I'm opining on everything; when I open my mouth and say something, it's an opinion.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.

To be great is to assume great concerns.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

Frankly speaking, I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public or that the campaign headquarters of one of the candidates - in this case, Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton - apparently worked for her, rather than for all the Democratic Party candidates in an equal manner. I could never assume that anybody would find it interesting.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.

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

We believe the bridge has a 20-year life span left. That's assuming no earthquakes and no bad storms,

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

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.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

Why assume that to look is to see?

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.