Famous Quotes & Sayings

Price is always pivotal. If a house is under priced, people sometimes assume that there is something wrong with it.

Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

William Daley

Our legal team has concluded the ballot was unlawful, ... I assume that this is an issue that will end up in dispute.

People look at two oil men in the White House, and gasoline prices through the roof, and they likely assume that the president and the vice president are on the side of oil companies, not on the side of ordinary people.

People just assume that the bookstore orders the books and has all the control and we don't. I have the control over how many I order, but I don't have control over what's picked for a class.

Successive American administrations have declared peace in the Middle East is an American strategic interest, and one assumes that for an American strategic interest, Americans pay.

Sophia Amoruso

Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Our special teams unit is pretty much intact from last year and that is a huge positive. Murphy showed tremendous improvement last year and was the reason we won the Cumberland game and I look for more good things from him. Briggs will assume the punting duties as well as handling the returns for us.

Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.

Residents and workers still await a proper toxic cleanup and medical response to the World Trade Center attack. That weak track record and the troubling new federal policies described in this report do not bode well for the future. Americans should assume that in any future national disaster, human health and safety may not be protected.

Michael Ballack

We've talked. You can assume that I had a good feeling during that conversation. I have a feeling for myself and I know what I want.

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

We'll assume for the first time that you didn't know, and we'll send you that letter. And if you change and do things legally, you're off the hook, even though we could sue you.

Mahmoud Abbas

I think they are now responsible, and in order to assume responsibilities, their policies have to be compatible with international polices.

Ali LeRoi

I think the thing that makes this show entertaining is that we don't pander at all. We don't assume the audience is stupid, and we're not trying to trick them with anything fancy. We're just trying to tell decent stories, deliver the best jokes we know how. And we're not trying to dazzle them with B.S.

I think sometimes we look over it because we want so much more. You assume you're going to do it so you tend to downplay it.

Jason will take the reps in practice as if he were going to start. He plans to start, and we assume he will start. He played well enough for us to win last week, and it would be nice to get him a win.

The announcement is hardly surprising, but I wouldn't necessarily regard it as definitive. I don't assume that the Sovereign board can unilaterally make these decisions.

Joe Flaherty

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

That's the problem with forecast modeling. It assumes current conditions and normal weather throughout the period. That can go out the window.

That's the point of having a CHL (concealed handgun license) in Texas -- potential criminals should assume everyone is (carrying).

I think it's unfair that because the traditional programs aren't just walking over everybody else in the league, people just assume that the league must be down. I just think it's a very good league. That's what you strive for when you start a league ? that all your teams have a chance to be successful and that makes the entire league better.

I think it's reasonable to assume that these factors are not independent. It's important to understand how they interact and also to see if we can determine their relative importance. This is a very polarized field, in terms of supporting or not supporting the role of climate versus other factors. We don't want to contribute to the polarization, which I think is very unproductive in terms of the science. I hope we can move from this sort of debate into a more constructive one about interactions and relative roles of all the factors that may be contributing to the resurgence of malaria.

Cliff Stearns

I think it's reasonable to assume that if you don't test, you won't find out.

Wayne Coyne

It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

Jennifer Beals

I think that is one of the things that makes watching him kind of fascinating, that we are watching everybody, this person that we assume is a demon.

Mary McAleese

It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.

Wendy Wright

It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. A 17-year-old could buy it for a 13-year-old girl. Or worse yet, a pedophile could purchase this drug for his victims.

I think people assume Merrill wouldn't say something like that unless they expect pretty good news from Intel when it reports tomorrow after the bell. Intel is the technology bellwether, so if things look good for them, that bodes well for other techs.

I think people would have assumed a 50 percent cut in roaming charges over three years. If they did it by the end of 2007 -- a year quicker -- then it's a little bit negative.

Jenny Lewis

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.