Free assume sayings, quotes and quotations
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.
~assume saying by Heywood Broun
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
~inspirational sayings about Civilization quotes by Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
~assume quotes by Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their beliefs. The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.
~famous quotes about Conformity by Michael Crichton, The Lost World
The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
~assume sayings by Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, 1963
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
~assume saying by Anne Lamott
Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.
~inspirational sayings about Photography quotes by Author Unknown
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
~assume quotes by Douglas Adams
They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
~famous quotes about Worry by Jack Kerouac
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
~assume sayings by H.L. Mencken
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
~assume saying by Thomas Paine
[I]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people aro
~inspirational sayings about Christmas quotes by D.D. Monroe
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
~assume quotes by Ivern Ball
Assume a virtue if you have it not. Assuming it will in time develop it.
~famous quotes about Attitude by
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction
~assume sayings by Robert Frost
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war
~assume saying by Homer, Iliad
Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking.
~good sayings about Poker by Nick Dandalos, attributed
Don't worry about people stealing your ideasIf your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats
~assume quotes by Howard Aiken
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
~motivational quotes about Conformity sayings by Katherine Hepburn
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
~assume sayings by Salman Rushdie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~assume saying by Thomas Edison
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
~good sayings about Carpe Diem by Stephen Vincent Benét
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.
~assume quotes by Shirley Ann Grau
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
~motivational quotes about Books Reading sayings by George Steiner
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
~assume sayings by Golda Meir
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
~assume saying by E.L. Doctorow
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
~good sayings about Clothing by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
~assume quotes by Harry Vardon
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose
~motivational quotes about Patriot Day sayings by The Wonder Years
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army
~assume sayings by George Herbert.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
~assume saying by Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
~good sayings about Children by Stacia Tauscher
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
~assume quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
~motivational quotes about Imagination sayings by Author Unknown
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~assume sayings by Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
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