#assuming

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

— Donna Lynn Hope

#assumptions #defeat #equality

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

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. ↗

— Suze Orman

#assuming #assured #back #been #bond

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#i #me #none #roles #simply

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#acoustic guitar #assuming #attention #best #foot

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#almost #anything #assuming #available #composite

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. ↗

— Pat Paulsen

#assuming #circles #control #country #either

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#absolute power #approve #assuming #cannot #fellow-men