#assume

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#assumed #carter #case #confirmed #counsel

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#deputies #few #many #often #only

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.' ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#actually #always #assume #better #crap

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. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assumes #condition #disease #essential #greater

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny. ↗

— Ira Glass

#assume #effect #funny #i #just

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#before #being #good #got #make

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#cannot #democratic #free #fulfill #governance

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#before #camps #conservatives #divided #essentially