Assumption Quotes

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I think one of the reasons I haven`t married Tim is that I hate that couples assumption - that once you`re committed to someone you stop treating each other as individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.

- Susan Sarandon

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I`ve always been bothered by that assumption.

- Phil Collins

Well, then it`s my responsibility, too, because as an actress I have to take the responsibility for taking a part where I have to murder somebody. Is somebody going to get the idea to kill someone from watching it? I have to make the assumption that the people watching it are intelligent enough to know that I`m playing a character.

- Terry Farrell

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

- Jasmine Guy

The base assumption for everyone is you`re on your own for 72 hours.

- Larry Klein

continuation of me striving to be right spiritually. The assumption is that a person who does Christian music is automatically connected (to God). That`s so untrue ... I hope this music is a reflection of the connection I have. I`m very proud to be a Christian.

- Kirk Franklin

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

- Leonard Nimoy

There wasn`t a trail that led to an assumption of (Nevin) trying to influence anything.

- Michael Gill

There`s an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they`re not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child`s family and often the village.

- Roma Downey

I thin many people`s deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there`s an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

- Robyn Hitchcock

We made the assumption that the majority of our agents were still using the yellow pad approach to interviewing clients and gathering data. We did not want to trip over our data internally and thought if we could connect our existing software, utilize Web-enabled technology and compile it with the ability of office data entry we could automate workflow for agents in the field.

- Chris Rice

It was good to see Pac on the field. It looked to me he made some plays. I don`t know about the (penalty). It was a very athletic play to get his hand on the ball. I think the assumption was that he went through the receiver.

- Jeff Fisher

There`s an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they`ll be partners forever.

- David Gibbs

. . . (today) we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption (in the modern world) that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . (today) we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.

- Bernard Williams

We were under the assumption that the district knew of our continued arrangement with the lab after Flow Science left,

- Carlos Ramirez

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one`s own opinions are infallibly correct.

- John Fiske

We have always believed that the atmosphere will act in the future as it has in the past. This assumption can fail in some years but when applied over a period of several years we find that the atmosphere and ocean does indeed have a long period memory in most years.

- William Gray

The companies founded two or three years ago have been struggling with the assumption that follow-on investments would be as easy to get as the initial funding. They`re not getting (the follow-on) funding, and so they`re telling people that VCs don`t want to spend. We do, but more on the traditional companies missed during the dot-com bubble.

- Geoffrey Moore

(These days, it may be easier to raise startup money than it was during the boom. No, it doesn`t seem that way. But that`s a perception promulgated by precarious or now deceased startups.) The companies founded two or three years ago have been struggling with the assumption that follow-on investments would be as easy to get as the initial funding, ... They`re not getting (the follow-on) funding, and so they`re telling people that VCs don`t want to spend. We do, but more on the traditional companies missed during the dot-com bubble.

- Geoffrey Moore

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, `This is a jewel,` ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

- John North

That was just her assumption, you can fault her for it. You`re on your honeymoon, you`re having fun, you`re letting your hair down. It`s downtime.

- James Walker

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

- Peter Singer

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

- Adam Nadauld

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

- Alan Christensen

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.

- Albert Newgarden

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

- Alex Carey

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

- Alex Hittle

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states` rights is gone. There`s no support for it in the Supreme Court and there`s no support for it in public opinion.

- Alfredo Amezaga

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

- Alice Paul

Well, I think the operating assumption of everybody is that Novak has provided information to Fitzgerald in one form or another.

- Amanda Vail

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

- Amjad Jamal

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own `accuracy.`

- Amy Clark

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

- Amy Estry

There can be no assumption that today`s majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

- Andrew Lebow

We estimate the assumption of these contracts by Tennessee Tire Recyclers and the pending closure of our Tennessee facility in September will relieve us of obligations that have negatively contributed to our operating losses over the past several years and will positively impact our overall corporate cash flow by over $150,000 per month. We anticipate the transition of assigning all contracts to be completed within 90 days and will redeploy all remaining Tennessee equipment to other locations during that timeframe.

- Anne Nave

People want closet space. If you fill it to the gills, the assumption is you don`t have enough closet space.

- Anthony Crescenzi

We have no indication that he has left this immediate area, so we make the assumption that he is still afoot or ... holed up somewhere in this area,

- Auguste Preault

He`s had a lot handed to him, for obvious reasons. There`s no sense yet of how deep he goes. ... It`s hard to discern any ambition in him. But so what? Everyone here goes on the assumption everyone wants to be prime minister.

- Austin Kirby

cannot operate on that assumption.

- Ayman al-Zawahri

These savings are a clear positive, but retiree liability cuts are likely to see some almost immediate offsets, from ongoing health care inflation, possible Delphi liability assumption and falling long-term rates.

- Azzam Alwash

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind

- Jean Kerr

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer`s money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."

- Thomas Sowell