Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Schneier

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

Unfortunately, at that point there's not a whole lot of good options. You have to assume that it's going to have to wait until you get back home.

There has to be something that we don't know. To simply explain that they're doing this to avoid litigation assumes that they'd be willing to throw money down a rat hole.

When she kicked him he didn't have the opportunity to take the bike or the juvenile. We can't assume which he was going to do but either way it's a bad scenario, and we want to make the community aware that this did occur so they're aware of their surroundings.

Francois Hollande

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.

Chris Lowe

There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'.

David J. C. MacKay

Fusion power is speculative and experimental. I think it is reckless to assume that the fusion problem will be cracked, but I'm happy to estimate how much power fusion could deliver, if the problems are cracked.

Don Johnson

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Elizabeth Jagger

People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.

I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

Frank Rich

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

We believe the acquisition will become rather expensive. We assume Deutsche Post has to pay a significant premium. A price of 5 billion euros or more for a 100-percent acquisition is likely.

Jase Robertson

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

John Grogan

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

Rene Cassin

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.

Stanley Hauerwas

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

Stanley Hauerwas

We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace.

Rachel Sklar

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

But one ought not to be I think blase about these matters, one can't assume that those that are left won't still have some residual capacity to continue,

Muhammad Yunus

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

Donald Trump

People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.

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.

We assume they will be back at work tomorrow.

We assume that would lead to there being sufficient energy reserves in the market and, second, we would wish the pressure on the prices of oil products to be lessened,

We assume that will begin to happen during the first half of next year.

We assume that we won't be in the black in 2007.

We assume that things don't evolve. That Bill Clinton was always this gifted communicator because that's how he left office. But he had to grow. There were some bad days.

We assume that they are missing, but we have no idea where they are.

Jeff Lewis

We assume that that will eventually happen with ours. We are recommending that they be replaced based on what's happened at other plants.

We assume that in some segments (rural communications) and regional markets (remote districts) we remain monopolists. But there are markets where competition with mobile and alternative fixed-line operators is very high. And these are firstly major Russian cities.

We assume that BMW Group will remain on this path of growth in 2006.

We assume our fruits and vegetables are protected. As we learned from 9/11, you can't take anything for granted.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.