(452 quotes found)
“Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.”
Dave Barry
“Never assume the obvious is true.”
William Safire
“Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.”
“I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
William S. Burroughs
“The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape”
William Shakespeare
“In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.”
Dalai Lama
“We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.”
Stephen R. Covey
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”
Walt Whitman
“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships.”
Carol Gilligan
“You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.”
Elijah Wood