Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Wales

That's a big error to assume that there's any tension between the two, that it's experts vs. community. There are experts in the community.

That projection assumes the growth rate in the county will slow down. Washington County will still be one of the major growth counties in the state and nation.

It's not going to be an overnight sensation. My concern is that people will assume they are now free of insulin shots.

Everyone has assumed it's going to be a perfect scenario, ... The market has departed from most traditional levels of valuation.

Christina Hendricks

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'

Everyone assumed the Internet would be the thing and somehow the Internet would damage their business,

Patrick Byrne

Everyone always assumes that this is all about Overstock, but it isn't. It's about Gradient.

Klaus Kleinfeld

Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is carved in stone so nobody should assume that they have the right to live with us for ever.

It was a gut check. I thought, 'Let's assume the market comes back and we actually survive this. What will the fruits of survival be?

It's wrong to assume that the dollar will start to fall as the Fed stops raising rates. What we could see is a transition to a structural support for the dollar as the trade position improves.

It's very reasonable to assume that we are going to have a payback coming.

Vinton Cerf

It took 30 years to get the Internet to where we are now. Thirty years from now, we have to assume there will be colonies on the moon, colonies on Mars and other planets and research stations all over.

It will always come to the biggest entity who they assume has the biggest pockets.

It was just assumed that I was wrong. It was a blatant lie.

Eric Ross

They certainly don't give me any confidence. Their assumption for the back half of the year assumes a lot of things that certainly haven't happened over the last two quarters.

Phil Klay

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

The walls between the Christian way of life and an American way of life are basically collapsed and they're assumed to be the same thing.

Heywood Broun

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Amy Sedaris

They assume that I want a boyfriend, and yeah, that I'd probably like to have a baby and get married - but they're wrong.

They assume if they did not graduate in four years in our district these kids are dropouts. Some of these kids don't finish with us, some go on to continuation school, some go to Mexico. The state wants accountability but does not know how to get it.

Rick Hall

They are willing to assume that responsibility and do it fairly.

They were all built from 1920 to yesterday, and you can only assume that most of the buildings were built in compliance with the Florida building code. Most were built to withstand 100 mph winds.

They were well established when we started the investigation so it's safe to assume this had been going on for some time.

Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

Michael Palin

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Bruce Robinson

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

Asa Gray

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

Steve Alford

A freshman has only about 25% of his degree completed. They go off to play professional basketball, and to assume they will come back and get the degree done five, six, seven years later, I don't see that happening.

When we implement the law, we assume Congress knows what they're doing.

(When we hired a search firm) folks automatically assumed that we were at first base, and that couldn't be further from the truth. We're rounding third base.

We welcome the European Union's intention to assume the lion's share of the financial burden and, given the U.S. role in the military campaign, this is an appropriate division of labor,

Bruce Schneier

We'd be crazy to assume that the bad guys aren't thinking of this.