#assuming

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences. ↗

— Susan Rice

#afghanistan #assuming #consequences #germany #honest

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#being #big #children #curve #grownup

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. ↗

— Jan de Hartog

#assuming #cannot #commit #common #error

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#being #being used #brothels #cameras #catch

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#assuming #both #cannot #catholic #communist

I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#dark #depends #different #different things #going

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ↗

— William H. Seward

#assuming #cannot #equal #falls #ground

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. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#assuming #because #bond #comes #cool

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#almost #anything #assuming #available #composite

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? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die