Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption ... that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season,

This is an assumption but a very serious assumption.

This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing. We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.

This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing, ... We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.

They've baked in $50 (per barrel) crude oil and $1.48 (per gallon) jet fuel as their going assumption for fuel expense.

They tape everything in the casino and save it. But, apparently, the FBI confiscated the tapes, which show Annette leaving the casino and show in which direction she was going, and that would show who, if anyone, she left the casino with. It is my assumption she left with a crew member.

Isaiah Berlin

For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.

It's the society we live in, that we're so open and trusting. We make the assumption that everything is OK. And then something like this happens and it's a wake-up call. I'm certainly going to think more about where I put my information.

Ron Rash

You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers.

There wasn't a trail that led to an assumption of (Nevin) trying to influence anything.

Kweisi Mfume

There ought to be a basic assumption that black people, Latinos, Asians, native Americans and women, for that matter, can do something other than carry bags, make beds and wash dishes,

There once was a time that the assumption was that the origin of life, everything from building simple compounds up to complex life, had to happen here on Earth. We've discovered that some very biologically interesting molecules can be formed outside our earthly environment and delivered here.

It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children and had made a conscious decision to chose a lifestyle without (other people's) children.

David Daniels

It raises questions about the stability of all the other walls. At a minimum we expect the Corps will reanalyze all the walls on the assumption that this same failure mechanism could occur elsewhere.

There's a perception that the economy is actually doing quite well, in particular the labor market. It's a fairly straightforward assumption the Fed would want to hike rates in March and perhaps in May. You might see bond yields go higher.

Al Gini

There's an assumption that executives are there to do the right thing.

There's an assumption people make that low scoring requires small ball. If you know it's going to be 2-1 in the ninth way back in the second inning, that's great, but you don't. The home run is still the one thing that has unquestioned value. People are going to keep going for the fences.

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

Damon Galgut

I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

It was built on the assumption that eight to 12 people would be there, ... Now, during the season, 120 are out there on a typical day. We're lucky a lot of the work is outside. The building is now totally inadequate. It can't even meet basic needs.

Pauline Marois

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

Ben Mendelsohn

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

We have no intelligence or evidence that indicates that he (Bin Laden) is dead or incapacitated, so our working assumption is that he is still alive.

We have no indication that he has left this immediate area, so we make the assumption that he is still afoot or ... holed up somewhere in this area,

Tom Daschle

We have no choice but to revisit the question on other bills. Especially given the relationship between guns and schools these days, I think it's a natural assumption that one could make that there could be some amendments which will be offered,

Natalie Massenet

It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

Ellen Galinsky

What this finding reflects is the dissonance of today's reality and yesterday's old ideas. There's the assumption that family for women detracts from work while for men it supposedly enhances their viability and stability.