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.

Adam McKay

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Wayne Dyer

When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.

Walter Isaacson

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Paul Johnson

We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.

Jim Ecker

As far as I know there is no evidence at all in any way, shape, or form that she was kidnapped or anything like that at all happened.

Bret Ellis

As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth,

Jim Griffiths

That plays on the stereotype of the loose and passionate Latin female. It's also sure evidence that such things were going on.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

David Barron

probably the most important evidence you will hear in this case.

Max Mosley

Any evidence of team orders will be put in front of stewards, and I mean any evidence,

Bob Francis

anything else that the evidence leads us to.

Nobuki Goto

Technology stocks are playing catch-up to the rest of the market with some evidence that they've hit bottom.

Gary Schwartz

Scientists have long been fascinated with robust australopithecines because they were so distinctive from the neck up. Now we have evidence that they were interesting from the knee down as well.

Jason Williams

As it stands, I have fired four rounds, killed four squirrels and been visited by four police officers. The first time, they SWAT-deployed. This is silly.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Dean Kamen

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Andrew Olvera

We've seen that in this fire in the Topanga-Chatsworth area. We lost one structure, but we saved thousands of homes because we had that defensible space. We're able to do our job much more efficiently because of that.

Ed Markey

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Joe Banner

Normally I'd say the player is not likely to just pass up getting paid. But in this case, you really can't say. This isn't a very predictable situation.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Tom Dorsa

The suspect was most likely in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time.

John Pescatore

AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004,

Laura Bush

The old Medicare was a system stuck in the past and we need to worry about the young workers that are putting money into the future, ... The more options available, the more likely you are going to get what you want.

Cliff Brewis

The way it will likely play out is, they'll start with (rebuilding) infrastructure, to non-residential and then residential.

Chuck Hagel

The road to Arab-Israeli peace will not likely go through Baghdad, as some may claim.

Frank Anderson

This is perfectly tied to loyalty. If you're a regular user, you're more likely to win.

Kyle Cooper

The weather remains the primary driver. Until the weather moderates, prices will likely remain robust.

John Wanous

That's logical because there is no connection, ... They're paid by the hour, not by performance. It's a (union-) negotiated wage.

Sam Harris

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Thomas Jane

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

Peter Thonis

This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).

Romano Prodi

It's the logical consequence of a wrong decision,

David Oliver

Even if he doesn't get open, he opens something else up,

Frank Abagnale

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Jack Johnson

We're all related. We're all a family.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Leon Bear

We're all related in one way or the other.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

D. J. MacHale

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Shaul Mofaz

If we don't have quiet, the terror organisations will not know quiet,

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Grant Morrison

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Vladimir Lenin

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Bill Richardson

The war on terror is unlike any war we've ever faced,

Mahatma Gandhi

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.