Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Malpass

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representatives. We proceed from the assumption that Belarus and the United States have relations of their own, determined by a whole set of different factors. That's why we suggested separate visits. We hope our American and European partners will demonstrate in deed and not in word their constructive attitude towards cooperation with Belarus.

The assumption with Trivial Pursuit is never that one person would know all the answers, because it would be a very short game. The assumption is that one person should know half the answers.

The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be criminals, is racist. The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions

The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.

The assumption that everybody wants a bundle is flawed.

The assumption right now is that wild birds are vectors.

The assumption is that you're comfortable with the Internet and e-mail already.

The assumption is that you don't have as much to view as other folks do.

Paul Tagliabue

The assumption is that we can work through this in the next four months. If not, I'll stay on.

The assumption is that energy prices will be moderate. But energy prices can also be very volatile.

The assumption is that a lot of the problems that we're seeing in the semiconductor industry now are related to the economy, and any move by Greenspan to shore up the economic situation we're seeing is going to be very beneficial.

Brent Sutter

That was a two-hour, 45-minute hockey game. There is always the assumption these rules were put in to make the game more entertaining, but that is not entertaining hockey. It's not something you want to see in the game. We can't let it dictate how we need to play, but it makes it difficult to coach.

Rodney Brooks

You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own

We're working on a process that we think will be commercially viable, ... Our current working assumption is that we'll have the time and we'll work all the way to phase 3 and have large-scale safety trials.

My client didn't know (Campbell) was dying from a heart attack. He's not a medical doctor. He made a logical assumption that this person is passed out drunk.

Steve Spurrier

Who knows what's going to happen? I've never gone on the assumption where we have a winning season this year, we're going to have one next year. We could get clobbered next year.

You don't expose potentially tens of millions of women to a powerful treatment with the assumption it's going to help them, ... looks very promising, but the question is for which patients, at what cost in toxicity.

It is difficult for us to convince people that yes, this is possible. I have to make the assumption that we are not going to make those goals.

Zoe Kazan

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

Srikumar Rao

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

I was under the assumption that you were going to bring a plan.

John Davidson

I think people are looking beyond the unemployment report and into the future, ... The current economic environment is certainly weak, but maybe there's the assumption that it will get better.

James Lankford

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.

Nick Hardwick

We don't start with an assumption that someone's at fault here. We start from the assumption that the family need to know what happened and we're going to do our utmost to give them the answers,

Charles Kennedy

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

Though there is no clear-cut evidence that this gunman is related to a terror organization, it's the most logical assumption that when someone opens fire on an El Al counter in an international airport, most likely this is a terror attack.

We are operating under the assumption that they will extend.

Jean Kerr

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind

Sue Miller

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Based on the assumption that all precautions are taken as requested, we consider the difference in risk between U.S. and Japanese beef to be extremely small.