I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.