A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Assume the sale, not the fail.”
“Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.”
Source: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
“Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.”
Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
“Assume time is like a currency and passion is a recurring deposit account. Success is the interest that you reap.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher… the world.”
“Assume your job will be gone in five years.”
Source: Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want
“Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.”
Source: Darkfever: Fever Series
“Assuming all police officers are corrupt from the outset may save your life in a toxic encounter.”
“Assuming anything these days is delusional.”
“Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.”
“Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.”
“Assuming good thing happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people give people illusion to control the life and end up with disbeliefs.”
“Assuming he wins his primary easily, and continues to push back when Donald Trump goes over the line, I think Paul Ryan is well positioned to run in 2020 if Trump loses.”
“Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.”
“Assuming I'm home and don't have an event, I'll have a massage or I'll talk on the phone.”
“Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she is over what the children eat. It is far better to maintain harmony and let mother cope with the problem later. You can use the excuse "You are only having this because Mummy's in hospital!".”
Source: NMAA Cooks
“Assuming others have the same comprehension and understanding about a certain issue can prove erroneous.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.”
“Assuming Sandberg's advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career advice for working-class women, a group she clearly knows little about, she would have been just as harshly criticized for overstepping her bounds.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Assuming something is the illusion of knowing the truth.”
“Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.”
“Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.”
“Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.”
“Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.”
Source: Zen
“Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.”
“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?”
“Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.”
“Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.”
“Assuming that the one they love loves them back is the biggest illusion some people have.”
“Assuming that the tendency to pivot between disciplines was unique to me, I felt totally alone. My peers certainly didn't have everything figured out, but they all seemed to be on a linear trajectory toward something. My path, on the other hand, was just a mess of zigzags: music, art, web design, filmmaking, law...”
Source: How to Be Everything
“Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.”
“Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that in debate... Some have suggested censure. I think it is certainly a possibility that the Senate will decide on some alternative to removing the president from office.”
“Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.”
“Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.”
“Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.”
“Assuming the possibility then that some go to a place of torment after they die, I also assume that the place of torment is not simply for the sake of retributive justice but also for restorative justice: that we will see and understand the harm we have done. I also believe that Jesus is there as well, constantly present, so when folks turn to him in remorse and ask for release, he is there to release them.”
Source: For the Hurt, the Blessed, and the Damned
“Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”
Source: Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.”
“Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.”
“Assuming without asking, claiming without proving, concluding without knowing can reveal the true heart of a pretty false person.”
“Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.”
“Assuming you live through taking on the Archangels and Asteri, what then?'
'I don't know.' He gave her a half smile. 'Maybe you and I can figure it out, Quinlan. We'll have centuries to do it.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.”
“Assumption is obstacle to communication, stereotypes are obstacle to awareness.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.”
“Assumption is the biggest human consumption.”
“Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.”