#assumed

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit. ↗

— Martin Henderson

#about #accent #along #american #american accent

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back. ↗

— David Johansen

#age #always #assumed #back #because

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. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#assume #assumed #care #children #custom

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#assumed #books #commonly #condemns #end

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

#emotional #famous #generally #god #immediate

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#assumed #axiom #blinded #folly #gifted

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. ↗

— Larry Niven

#built #could #political #should #space

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#assumed #because #began #big #big surprise