#assume

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird. ↗

— Melissa Joan Hart

#boy #girl #having #i #learning

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. ↗

— Dave Heineman

#excellence #future #guarantee #i #our

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

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#assume #events #great #his #invention

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#collar #conservative #die #down #drop