#assume

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Colin Powell

#capability #clearly #create #determined #i

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#assume #attitude #australia #because #been

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#assume #before #eyes #face #front

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#biggest #biggest problem #child #dialogue #goes

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#column #edited #grant #i #put

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#assume #bad #bad situation #family #get

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired. ↗

— Grant Tinker

#hired #i #know #were #why

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

#emotional #famous #generally #god #immediate