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Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fateâ??s immortal loom -- Charles Baudelaire
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. -- Thomas Jefferson
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. -- Dean Acheson
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. -- Victor Kiam
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. -- Vaclav Havel
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.' -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. -- E. M. Forster
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. -- Robert M. La Follette
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. -- Amy Waldman
I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. -- Ray Dalio
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. -- Guru Nanak
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. -- Virginia Woolf
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking. -- Deepak Chopra
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. -- James Madison
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography. -- Martin Filler
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. -- Giordano Bruno
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. -- Ron Paul
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. -- Roy Jenkins
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. -- Daniel Kahneman
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. -- Larry Elder
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change. -- Susan Estrich
Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself. -- Patch Adams
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
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. -- Aleister Crowley
Every text assumes a reader. -- Alberto Manguel
Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes. -- William March
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. -- Louise Colet
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself -- Orson Scott Card
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. -- Josh Billings
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide. -- Maude Barlow
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. -- Walter Bagehot
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. -- Honore de Balzac
Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up. -- Jeff Sessions
Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine. -- Kristin Cavallari
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. -- Aldo Leopold
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. -- Dean Acheson
Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. -- George Carlin
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree -- Dean Acheson
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. -- Yoko Ono
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. -- William Shakespeare
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. -- Jean Baudrillard
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. -- Thomas Jefferson
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. -- Stephen Birmingham
A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. -- Napoleon Hill
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. -- Ameen Rihani
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something. -- Brandon Sanderson
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. -- Sara Sheridan
There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too. -- Nova Ren Suma
The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew. -- Adolf Hitler
Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray. -- Robert Piper
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. -- Jimmy Sangster
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself. -- Bob Goff
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. -- Rex Stout
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions. -- Ludwig von Mises
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes -- Victor Kiam
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life. -- Cody Horn
Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about. -- Rush Limbaugh
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. -- Johann Most
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. -- Marisha Pessl
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. -- Felix Morley
You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. -- Ray Dalio
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. -- Albert Camus
What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better. -- Selena
What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory? -- T. D. Jakes
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind. -- Madame de Stael
This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga. -- James Berardinelli
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't. -- Philip K. Dick
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. -- Hanya Yanagihara
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.' -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done. -- Isaiah Washington
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships. -- Gore Vidal
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. -- Martin Amis
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways. -- Rita Mae Brown
A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes. -- Marsha Blackburn
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. -- Robert M. La Follette
I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out. -- Michael Spiller
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. -- Richard Russo
I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment. -- Brandon Boyd
How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap? -- Reggie McNeal
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. -- William Godwin
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. -- Honore de Balzac
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. -- Jasper Fforde
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. -- Lyman Abbott
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic. -- Agnostic Zetetic
Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other. -- George Trumbull Ladd
[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy. -- Erich Fromm
Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success. -- Sophia Amoruso
A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother. -- Suzy Kassem
An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change. -- Archibald Marwizi
It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted. -- Christina Baker Kline
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. -- Laurent Fabius
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. -- J. William Fulbright
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. -- Muhammad Yunus
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life! -- Pope Francis
The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual. -- Charles Hodge
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved. -- Masaaki Imai
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. -- Thomas Jefferson
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. -- Jack Vance
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him. -- David Gallagher
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self. -- Nancy Etcoff
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster. -- Howard Hodgkin
TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries are floated to throw 'TMZ' off the scent. -- Stephen Rodrick
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration. -- Honore de Balzac
This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true. -- Malcolm X
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. -- Kevin DeYoung
Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells. -- Lorrie Moore
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place. -- Margaret Thatcher

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