Assumes Quotes

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

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

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.

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'

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.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.