Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have to assume that prior guidance did not assume any ground breaking concessions from labor.

James Denney

I have to assume that dividends is a big conversation in boardrooms right now. I don't get the sense that companies need all this money for research and development and buying back stock.

Investors have to step up and assume more responsibility.

House prices are significantly over-valued and we therefore assume that the current upswing will be relatively short-lived.

Lindsey Harding

I don't think I realized how big the Final Four was. I just kind of assumed that I would get here every year because that's just all I knew. I was really tense and really nervous in the game because I didn't feel like I had full control of things. I was just a freshman, and I didn't know what I was doing in a way.

I don't know how often it happens. But I hate to see, at any time during the season, where we give away an out or fail to make a play that we assumed everybody knew what they were doing.

Hiring intentions seem to have gone up a little bit and confidence is edging up. It's right to assume that the ECB will raise rates in March.

He's totally fine. We just didn't feel like last night we would take a chance and not have a body if we needed one. I assume he'll be ready for practice tomorrow.

Tony Dungy

He's faked a punt in the Pro Bowl before. It's just part of your job. You have to read your keys and you can't assume anything is going to take place. If you're on top of your job ... you can turn that into a big play for you.

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.

Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Giulio Natta

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.

Some people have got to assume more accountability,

Somebody's got to work with me. We have to assume responsibility not as party members. Somehow, we've got to get together and somehow we've got to do something. I'll do everything I can to support any reasonable proposals.

John Gray

Some employees don't get raises because they assume someone will notice their good work. They don't realize they have to motivate their boss to give them a raise,

Jen Kirkman

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Tibor Fischer

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.

Giordano Bruno

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

Ben Shapiro

Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?

Malcolm Gladwell

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Kevin Young

This design works with that site. It assumes that development would still take place.

This assumes that everything will proceed forward in a 'timely' way with the French material becoming available for my use very soon and all those who have their parts to play doing so promptly when requested.

When you do it every day, when you go out and throw to a lot of catchers, you don't even think about it. You just assume that a catcher will set up inside or outside, whatever. (This) opens up communications. You can tell them how you want them to set up. It's common sense, but you don't think about.

Deborah Harkness

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

Without proper communication, people will wonder why they're left in the dark, and assume the worst.

John Meyers

Protesters are looking for disclosure on the destination and use of funds paid by foreign miners. We assume that this implies that a proportion of the funding is not feeding through to local projects.

Raisins are perceived as sweet and sticky and any food that contains sugar and is sticky is assumed to cause cavities.

People who know each other only by acquiantance should give each other the benefit of the doubt. Words and circumstances can be misunderstood when you don't know the whole story. Life is complicated; histories lie behind people. Sometimes people need to do things or say things we just can't understand. It is not our place to assume we know all there is to know.

People think that if they don't have a family history that they're OK. Every person should assume that they are at risk.

J. Taylor

I've lived in South Carolina my entire life, I grew a family-owned business here, and I'm proud to assume a role where I can make a difference in raising income levels and creating opportunities for our state.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Eleanor Catton

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.