Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Mount

The state's water policy and all its plans for restoration of the delta are predicated on one flawed assumption -- that the delta is a fixed landscape and will look the same for the indefinite future. And it won't.

Alain Badiou

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Ariel Levy

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

John Taylor

The price point is certainly an impressive value statement, ... I think the going assumption is you have to pay about $10 a month to be involved in a gaming community like this, so to offer a one time fee of $49.99 is going to make it a lot less challenging for kids or teens to get permission to play. I think it's a key price point position.

David Lawson

We spend a lot of time teaching them about collaboration and in establishing one coaching approach. While everyone has his own coaching style, we want some structure to the coaching. For example, the primary assumption is that every operator wants to work safely. The job of the coach is to work with employees so they work safely. The emphasis is on working collaboratively, rather than dictatorially.

Douglas Adams

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Albert Einstein

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

Anthony Bourdain

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

Tim Fitzpatrick

My assumption is that ... they ... found out that PC World had named the 7170 to its top 10 list in 2005, so the choice was easy for them.

Bruce Nudell

Really, Abbott is bearing the brunt of this.

Tony Crescenzi

The supply of bonds won't have a large bearing on the yield levels or the structure of the yield curve, ... The influence on interest rates will come more fundamental factors such as inflation expectations, competition for capital and monetary policy.

Tom Stoppard

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

Jason Gore

Sometimes, you have to bear down and just say you're not going to go down like that, ... Sometimes, you have to dig a little deep.

James Stevens

RYA courses and certificates are renowned throughout the world and indicate that the bearer has been trained and examined to the highest standards,

Fred Abbo

Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. With our high level of customer service, we take a personal interest in every home we build.

Strobe Talbott

There will be specific arrangement for division of labor within that but nothing that would bear any resemblance to partitioning or dividing Kosovo up into different national sectors,

Nick Cook

It was an extreme measure. Bear in mind 150 people would have been sitting in this thing as it would have blasted off, literally like a rocket, to get out of the stadium.

Jacques Chirac

These events bear witness to a deep malaise, ... We will respond by being firm, by being fair and by being faithful to the values of France.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Larry Conley

People say it's considered the biggest time of the year for eating. I just enjoy eating a lot of food and being with friends and family.

Francis Lun

People are still very keen on buying China shares as it's the biggest growth story -- and Hong Kong is catching the coattails of China's growth.

Brian Curry

People are still seeing a lot of their needs being met on the current paradigm which has to do with a free client and pretty solid services that they are getting from the public services, ... That's probably one of the biggest barriers. What they have is often times good enough.

Steve Lacy

People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

Brad Scott

Osawatomie is a quality opponent and we made a lot of mistakes. We just made a couple plays here and there. The opening kick off was probably one of the biggest ones.

Marion Nestle

or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.

Bill Brown

Offensively and defensively, they have a real consistent program, ... The biggest difference with this year's team for them is they might have a lack of experience.

Carl Zetie

No single factor is responsible for more wasted effort, rework, or failed projects than inadequate requirements. For many companies, improving the communication of requirements between IT and business managers-both gathering the requirements from the business and confirming understanding to the business-is the single improvement with the biggest measurable impact.

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Tom Maurer

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

This is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, which is not a subversive group.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Terry Bennett

Its an epidemic in the United States, and its croaking us,

Jack Richardson

We've got an epidemic up here of underage kids getting booze.

Bill Gates

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

John Campbell

People come as visitors and it's our job to send them away as pilgrims.

Michael Boyd

Northwest can survive if they have to go into bankruptcy, ... These labor unions have to take it upside the head. Their next job will be at the Wal-Mart.

Nate Whitford

Once the job is done, then it will be time to look back and reminisce. But right now, there is still a job to do.

Scott Ellis

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

William Kristol

The more one learns about him, ... one is surprised that he's in that job in the first place.

Dan Castellaneta

Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?

Rob Gray

Defensively we played better in the second half. We did a nice job of taking away what they had in the first half.

Clay Jordan

DeAndre did a nice job tonight. I knew we might lay it down some, so we had to make up for it with big plays. And we have the players to make those.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Robert Burns

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

John Sununu

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

F. L. Lucas

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

Jay Leno

Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Liev Schreiber

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

Larry David

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

Tatiana Maslany

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

John F. Kennedy

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

George Somerwill

The situation has been resolved and everyone has been released,

Jeffrey White

Is it going to resolve the sectarian killings? No. Is it going to end the insurgency? No.

Michael Davies

I really thought this would have been resolved a while ago.

Alan Greenspan

It is risky, ... It's risky doing nothing. It's risky doing any other solution. ... I know no way to resolve this without risk.

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

Rahul Dravid

The way we've won this series is heartening.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.