Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
assuming
«Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed»
Author: Jan de Hartog
| Keywords:
assuming
«Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.»
Author: Pat Paulsen
(Comedian, Politician, Statesman)
| Keywords:
assuming, circles, circle around, in circles, left wing, right wing, the left, wing
«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.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
assuming, brothel, Brothels, cameras, congressmen, drivers, incorrectly, local, red light, surveillance, This Week
«No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Arguments,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
assuming, nonsensical, supporter, supporters, to a great extent
«The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against, assuming, beings, brings, by far, courageous, formidable, honor, human beings, painful, precisely, spiritual, tragedies, weapons
«Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assuming, besides, incompetence, pitiful
«The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
assuming, Catholic, communist, opponent, The Catholic
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assuming, begun, by and by, come on, commons, competencies, competency, flattering, gratified, House of, House of Commons, institutions, meddling, multitude, Prophecies, refined, sneered, sneering, sneers, spoil, the House of Commons, verified, verifies, verify, vulgar