Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's realistic to assume the segment won't grow, but we will be taking share.

It's reasonable to assume that equity markets will make money this year. There's nothing like the end of an interest-rate cycle to get investors' juices flowing.

Any time there's a jump in one index, you start to worry about the other one. And any time one of them is tame, you tend to assume that the outlook for the other gets better.

Stanley Hauerwas

In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

Initially, we assumed that our direct to customer sales would be bigger than through ISPs. However, now we've realized that ISPs can be a critical part of the plan.

In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent families are better for children than one-parent families, ... But a number of studies now suggest that the well-being of children in mother-stepfather families is no greater, on average, than in single-parent families.

I'm looking at what (the newsletters) recommend and I assume investors are, too,

I'm not going to assume anything over anybody. It's girls basketball, on any given day it can go any way.

Galileo Galilei

I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,

Philipp Meyer

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

Kathleen Blanco

I just assume that all of my people are keeping me legal and that the policy is in keeping with what other governors have done and that we have never abused those opportunities,

I love words ... so I can be a sucker for eloquence. Sometimes I assume that there is substance behind the words. Sometimes I am right. And, sometimes I am wrong.

I never believed this was a federal offense. Whatever he did, and let's assume he did what the jury said he did, this was not a federal crime.

In future years we have to assume that there will be somebody out there who will be willing to do it.

Klaus Kleinfeld

Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is carved in stone so nobody should assume that they have the right to live with us for ever.

It was a gut check. I thought, 'Let's assume the market comes back and we actually survive this. What will the fruits of survival be?

It's wrong to assume that the dollar will start to fall as the Fed stops raising rates. What we could see is a transition to a structural support for the dollar as the trade position improves.

It's very reasonable to assume that we are going to have a payback coming.

Vinton Cerf

It took 30 years to get the Internet to where we are now. Thirty years from now, we have to assume there will be colonies on the moon, colonies on Mars and other planets and research stations all over.

It will always come to the biggest entity who they assume has the biggest pockets.

It was just assumed that I was wrong. It was a blatant lie.

Eric Ross

They certainly don't give me any confidence. Their assumption for the back half of the year assumes a lot of things that certainly haven't happened over the last two quarters.

Phil Klay

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

The walls between the Christian way of life and an American way of life are basically collapsed and they're assumed to be the same thing.

Heywood Broun

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Amy Sedaris

They assume that I want a boyfriend, and yeah, that I'd probably like to have a baby and get married - but they're wrong.

They assume if they did not graduate in four years in our district these kids are dropouts. Some of these kids don't finish with us, some go on to continuation school, some go to Mexico. The state wants accountability but does not know how to get it.

Rick Hall

They are willing to assume that responsibility and do it fairly.

They were all built from 1920 to yesterday, and you can only assume that most of the buildings were built in compliance with the Florida building code. Most were built to withstand 100 mph winds.

They were well established when we started the investigation so it's safe to assume this had been going on for some time.

There's no guarantee they are even looking at a Schuyler-Brown combination. We always assumed it would be a Schuyler-Brown combination. They fit together so well. But it could be such a thing as a three-county combination or going a totally different direction ? Fulton-Schuyler, Adams-Brown.

The times for the games haven't been set yet. But, I assume we will be playing in the 7 p.m. game.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.