Famous Quotes & Sayings

One thing that he said was the assumption that a sniper was a single person could not be further from the truth,

My assumption is that ... they ... found out that PC World had named the 7170 to its top 10 list in 2005, so the choice was easy for them.

My assumption from talking with Ken in the interview process is that the investigation will go forward. I think he feels confident that there is a good team of people in place who are working on it and he has several more months to be part of the investigation before he reports for duty out here.

The primary assumption is that economic and profit growth will resume by midyear.

John Taylor

The price point is certainly an impressive value statement, ... I think the going assumption is you have to pay about $10 a month to be involved in a gaming community like this, so to offer a one time fee of $49.99 is going to make it a lot less challenging for kids or teens to get permission to play. I think it's a key price point position.

Obviously, he's going to the right because he knows that's where the votes are. My assumption is if he gets through the primary, he will tack toward the center.

People want closet space. If you fill it to the gills, the assumption is you don't have enough closet space.

Dorothy Allison

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.

If we hadn't had a recession a year ago, and we were watching the fall in employment, a stalling manufacturing sector, falling bond yields and falling stock prices, many people would think we were entering a recession. There's an assumption that the recovery will continue and get stronger next year, when in fact it's possible the economy's tipping over again.

We want to see first how the lottery is received. Based on all of the polls, we're making the assumption that it's going to be very highly received. But a poll is a poll, and until we actually see what happens when tickets go on sale, we'll have a better idea by then.

We were under the assumption that the district knew of our continued arrangement with the lab after Flow Science left,

People are looking for something that isn't necessarily going to happen. They're making the assumption that things are going to turn negative and there's no evidence to support it.

Douglas Coupland

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

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.

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,

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 sea- son,

That's been the biggest surprise to me. We're a wholesaler of Internet telephony, and our initial assumption was that the first customers would be ISPs looking to extend their traditional business to include voice. But it's been the traditional resellers selling prepaid calling cards that have moved quickly.

The base assumption for everyone is you're on your own for 72 hours.

It's possible that we could work something out regarding 2007. But our assumption was that she would sell the conference and it would move.

That's the assumption we're operating under. We're certainly going to look at all of our options, but we're under the assumption Pavel will not play with us this season.

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.

Jon Cleary

I'm going on the assumption that it's all gone my studio, my guitars, my keyboards, all my work. And even if the house survived, I'm worried that people have looted everything in it.

There's suddenly this new possibility that the Fed will tighten monetary policy again. Most people were going on the assumption that that was not going to happen.

There was an assumption at the beginning of June that second-quarter sales of desktops and servers would be lethargic but momentum has built throughout the quarter. There were concerns that there would be lackluster spending by consumers and corporations because of high oil prices but it looks like things were probably normal or even better than normal.

Charles Sims

I want them to live on the assumption that they won't play another game,

Elizabeth McCracken

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

They are making the assumption that you are still recorded as a dependent on your parents' tax return, and therefore they have some right to send a letter home.

Cornel West

Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

Seth Shostak

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.