#assuming

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#attend #comic #common #con #i

Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#assumptions #defeat #equality

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#anarchistic #area #assuming #band #definition

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#being #big #children #curve #grownup

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. ↗

— Jan de Hartog

#assuming #cannot #commit #common #error

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#assuming #bush #central #chief #competitor

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#fit #i #interviewed #kind #know

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#become #china #continues #develop #does

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#believe #body #both #everyone #i