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Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
-Am I allowed to call you Grayson, or have you assumed a new identity as well?-He's Frank. — Jen Turano
He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he'd ever tried.
— Kass Morgan
Assumed understanding based upon religious tradition is the breeding ground for error.
— Robert G. Paul
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.
— Richard Engel
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
— Peter Shepherd
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
— Madeline Miller
Despite the elder-hippie vibe, she was so attractive that I assumed we must be related.
— Rick Riordan
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.
— Steve McConnell
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
— V.S. Pritchett
I don't want to say anything about my kids ... but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
— Robert Orben
That which He has not assumed He has not healed.
— Gregory Of Nazianzus
Photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
— Edmundo Desnoes
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
— Ricky Jay
I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.
— Lindi Ortega
The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.
— Neil Postman
I'd assumed Jack's death was the worst that I could endure. Matthew might have been preparing me for both of their murders. Dear
— Kresley Cole
I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.
— Thornton Wilder
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
— Maya Angelou
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.
— John Perry Barlow
In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainment.
— Beatrice Rose Roberts
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.
— Madeline Levine
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
— George Bernard Shaw
Hatred is nearly always honestrarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. — Ninon De L'Enclos
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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.
— Nicholson Baker
Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.
— Robert Galbraith
Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.
— Jonathan Kellerman
We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.
— Stephen King
"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 - — Claire LaZebnik
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.
— Graham Norton
I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
— Jane Hamilton
By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too.
— Jessica Knoll
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
— James Nasmyth
So when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.
— Andrew Davidson
Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.
— Daniel Marques
People have just assumed that ... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
— Nicholas A. Christakis
I assumed my first undivided responsibility.
— Charles Dickens
It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.
— Bernard Levin
I'm 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.
— Kumail Nanjiani
Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.
— Valerie Harper
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
— Jennifer Crusie
My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
— Leon Bridges
Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.
— Jeff Lindsay
I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.
— Kami Garcia
I'm annoyed because he assumed I'd have dinner with him, then continued to assume I would even after I refused. It's a normal reaction.
— Nora Roberts
I'd assumed he'd be old and burly with a side order of crotchety.
— Rachel Hawkins
we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and lost.
— Bruce Ashford
However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls.
— Alice Walker
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
— Grace Hightower
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.
— Franny Billingsley
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.
— Thomas Aquinas
I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.
— Glenn Gould
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
— Aleister Crowley
I am not helping because I have already assumed so much, and I would rather let her suffer than be wrong.
— Neil Hilborn
I was the girl that everyone always assumed was good... so they never asked... but he had and the world stopped.
— Jay Crownover
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.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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.
— Alan Rickman
Well look at that. He's got the Rockwell genes. Maya's father gloated loudly over what Maya assumed was his third leg.
— Melisa M. Hamling
Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.
— Thomas Aquinas
because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted.
— Ralph Ellison
Energy follows thought; no matter how hard we work or how much we know, we tend to rise to our assumed limits, and no higher.
— Dan Millman
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
— George MacDonald
There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
— Frederick Pollock
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.
— David Thorne
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
— Jared Harris
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.
— Hugh Jackman
