I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"
Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p. " That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?
People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.
Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.
We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.
Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.
When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.