Famous Quotes & Sayings

You had a president who was clearly committed to fundamental tax reform, and we assumed that they would be taking that commitment to heart.

We're surprised that A-B doesn't seem as certain about their team's success, but we hope they'll reconsider because there are so many NASCAR fans who would enjoy watching this wager unfold. We assumed the folks at Budweiser would have more confidence in their driver's performance, especially given that so many experts and fans expect Dale Jr. and his team to be so strong this season.

Leonard Mlodinow

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

There is always a chance. Don't assume your data is gone.

The opportunity for AMD with Dell was a year ago. Last year Intel was a disaster. This year it's not the case, and you can't assume that Intel is going to continue to screw up.

Saul Perlmutter

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.

Umpires typically turn their back on the rule. Unfortunately, we can't assume every umpire is going to be old school and turn their back on it.

Arn Tellem

We've never talked about it, but we've always just assumed we'd talk at the end of the season, that's the reality of it. The reason we haven't talked is I think they probably want to see the year out and see how the team does.

To assume that managing sockeye is like counting trees on a hillside is erroneous and based on a failure to understand what is really happening here,

David Dreier

To assume that his entire tax package is going to be passed through both houses of Congress without modification would be inaccurate.

We try to stay out of the business of making predictions, but it seems reasonable to assume that the virus will continue to spread to adjacent areas,

We don't want people to assume that athletes on team sports are going to be more predisposed to a certain way of looking at life than those that aren't on team sports.

We don't think so, and continue to assume long-term earnings growth of 7 percent-to-8 percent in our valuation model.

Danny Wuerffel

We saw our neighbor's house on a photo, and it was up to roof with flooding. So we can only assume it's the same for ours.

You go into a store to buy something and you assume it's legal or the store wouldn't be selling it. This would put the obligation on the business that sells or rents these types of devices to tell the customer of the restrictions.

There's no guarantee they are even looking at a Schuyler-Brown combination. We always assumed it would be a Schuyler-Brown combination. They fit together so well. But it could be such a thing as a three-county combination or going a totally different direction ? Fulton-Schuyler, Adams-Brown.

The times for the games haven't been set yet. But, I assume we will be playing in the 7 p.m. game.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

What's happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides' core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves - what's most important to their side - but in fact their adversaries really don't oppose them.

The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.

Richard King

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

We want to assume 100 percent control, and we feel that in the Hispanic community there are a lot of needs that aren't being served.

Henry Mintzberg

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

Stephen Hawking

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

We'll have a PDA (personal digital assistant) and cell phone for different uses and they should have wireless capability built into them, then we might have a car and we may be carrying a notebook PC. Those will have wireless capabilities built into them so it's very reasonable to assume that we will have more than a few devices that will have wireless capability built into them and of course service providers will have that much more revenue stream so I think the price per service will be reduced significantly just to stay connected.

Those hopes and dreams...one would have to assume that they've got way beyond perhaps where they ought to be, and I think that we've seen a correction taking place as a result of that.

Unfortunately, people assume that if you read poorly that correlates with having a low IQ.

Tim Russert

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

You know why. It's Texas. It's the state university of Texas. They just assume that posture. It's their birthright.

Let's just assume that everyone running is honorable and just say what the differences are and let the people decide, ... That's what I hope will happen in this election, because in our lifetime, we may never get another chance like this.

Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.