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Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes. — William March

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something. — Brandon Sanderson

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted. — Christina Baker Kline

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. — Martin Amis

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. — Jimmy Sangster

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him. — David Gallagher

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — Louise Colet

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. — Aldo Leopold

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Robert M. La Follette

Convergence assumes that scientific discoveries matter to faith. — John Haught

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life. — Cody Horn

Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational. — Scott Adams

Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity. — Nic Marks

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray. — Robert Piper

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. — George Carlin

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better. — Selena

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one. — Kevin O'Leary

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. — Rex Stout

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too. — Nova Ren Suma

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

Dad's Theory of Arrogance
that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl

I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out. — Michael Spiller

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships. — Gore Vidal

Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed. — Scott Adams

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. — Victor Kiam

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

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

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself — Orson Scott Card

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. — Lyman Abbott

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson

A writer has some hope even if he is not appreciated. He assumes that his works will bear witness to what he was. — Albert Camus

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Bonhoeffer knew that when the church stops talking about Jesus, it has nothing to say. And when it assumes dominance, it's not talking about Jesus. — Samuel Wells

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

Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine. — Kristin Cavallari

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot. — George Bernard Shaw

Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win. — Jade Jones

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. — Hanya Yanagihara

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved. — Masaaki Imai

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. — Honore De Balzac

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. — Margaret Thatcher

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil
assumes the living shape of the Jew. — Adolf Hitler

The problem is, if you never weep in public ... well, the public assumes you never weep. — Chuck Palahniuk

What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory? — T.D. Jakes

The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly; they hide in what it ignores or tacitly assumes. — Daniel Kahneman

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it. — Frederick Lenz

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga. — James Berardinelli

There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself. — Haruki Murakami

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes. — Marsha Blackburn

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

I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come. — Morag Joss

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

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. — Ray Dalio

The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough. — M. Scott Peck

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. — Johann Most

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. — Ameen Rihani

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. — E. M. Forster

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future ... They have got to step up. — Jeff Sessions

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. — Alice McDermott

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi

In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one's own. — Richard T. Kelly

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it. — M. Scott Peck

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. — J. William Fulbright

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. — Robert M. Hutchins

All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past — Jorge Luis Borges

I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment. — Brandon Boyd

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself. — Bob Goff

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide. — Maude Barlow

the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind. — Robert Harris

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. — Stephen Birmingham

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions. — Ludwig Von Mises

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character. — Edward McKendree Bounds

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

It is impossible to go on living when life assumes such grotesque and humiliating forms. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind. — Madame De Stael

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells. — Lorrie Moore

Your desire to advise other people,
grows in line with your perception ...
that assumes you're wiser than them. — Toba Beta

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done. — Isaiah Washington

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. — Vaclav Havel

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways. — Rita Mae Brown

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. — Jasper Fforde

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap? — Reggie McNeal

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! — Amos Bronson Alcott

Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success. — Sophia Amoruso

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Time assumes another dimension now - work and absorption in the search for an answer. — Daniel Keyes

Educating children by age group assumes that the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture. — Ken Robinson