Assumptions Kill Quotes & Sayings

Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let's you and me not go there, okay? — Ruth Ozeki

This led Montesquieu to become one of the earliest proponents of the trade theory of peace when he observed that hunting and herding nations often found themselves in conflict and wars, whereas trading nations "became reciprocally dependent," making peace "the natural effect of trade." The psychology behind the effect, Montesquieu speculated, was exposure of different societies to customs and manners different from their own, which leads to "a cure for the most destructive prejudices." Thus, he concluded, "we see that in countries where the people move only by the spirit of commerce, they make a traffic of all the humane, all the moral virtues. — Michael Shermer

You damn fool. You realize, even if all your assumptions are correct-even then, you still have to steal the world's most coveted sword from the world's safest place then be pursued by the ultimate hunter until you reach the heart of an enemy country in the middle of a war in which any side will happily kill you as a traitor, a spy, a wytch, or all three?"
"I thought you'd like it. — Brent Weeks

A single decision, a moment in time, and the ground could shift beneath your feet. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

So long as one assumes death as an absolute fact, one must have, as an assumed absolute value based on it, the decision either to kill or to be killed in the last extreme (and this includes attitudes to suicide and to 'natural death'). This alternative ultimately divides all people (who make that assumption about death) into two types. With a proper understanding of death, the decision (dialectic) must collapse on the laying bare of the assumption. Freud has remarked, that death is inconceivable to the Unconscious, a statement which, though open to the usual criticisms of F's mechanistic assumptions about consciousness, does point to a very important factual dialectic in assumptions about death. — Nanamoli Thera

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves. — Galileo Galilei

The five colors make man's eyes blind, the five notes make his ears deaf, the five tastes injure his palate. — Lao-Tzu

You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth. — Melissa Marr

I was Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular, so I think I should support him since we're one of the same cloth. — Paul LePage

The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is why ancient spiritual people used natural symbols to convey universal concepts. — Belsebuub

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. — Desiderius Erasmus

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot. — Walter Schloss