Assume Quotes

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.