#assume

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. ↗

— James Dobson

#husbands #leadership #merely #observation #their

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#any #assumed #desire #film #film actor

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing. ↗

— John Dyer

#across #all day #amusing #assume #day

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#assume #be strong #before #bowie #chance

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. ↗

— Brian Eno

#been #case #few #i #i can

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. ↗

— John Updike

#assumed #century #generally #had #his

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#because #capacity #consciously #convinced #difficulty

I would assume the case will never be closed. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#case #closed #i #never #will

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman. ↗

— Kate Adie

#assume #back-up #cameraman #costume #driver