Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Girardi

Sometimes people assume because we're major league baseball players and we make a lot of money, there aren't issues in your life. Sometimes there are issues you have to handle. I'm respectful of that.

seemed very poised, somebody who is ready to assume his duties.

Ronald Coase

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

Mark Steyn

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.

The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

No, at this point, no. ... At the moment, we don't have any reason whatsoever to assume that.

The 'average' customer PIRG mentions has little in common with most bank customers, ... PIRG assumes a typical customer bounces checks, deposits bad checks, pays bills late and generally doesn't manage money well.

Jennifer Tilly

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

It's important that patients not assume that the hormones of pregnancy are going to protect them from the types of problems they've had with mood previously.

It's safe to assume that pupils these days are going to go on to jobs where they're going to be working in an international dimension, and that's reflected in the way we organize things here at Harrow and indeed in the pupils that come here.

It's safe to assume that once we find a flaw, someone else will probably find it. The problem here is that someone malicious might find it and exploit it before Microsoft can provide full protection.

It's pretty hard to say anything positive about it from a union perspective. I assume the leadership anticipates a strong negative vote.

Sydney Smith

Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound

Don't assume that this one issue of so-called civilian use is the only issue out there,

Don't assume that federal employees will do this job perfectly. Remember how frustrated we have been with the FBI over the last few years in several instances. We are dealing with humans, and humans make mistakes,

Don't assume that all travel policies are the same, or that they will cover you for everything that might go wrong. Many policies, particularly the no-frills cover, can be very limited.

Leslie Mann

Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

Steve Spurrier

Everybody assumed that was the greatest college football down there. I think college football is excellent all over the country right now.

It was assumed that, after the Late Heavy Bombardment let up, comet impacts ? which were then 1,000 times more numerous than today ? delivered Earth's water.

It is realistic to assume the segment won't grow.

John Baird

It is safe to assume that there is some price sensitivity, but the diamond engagement ring isn't going anywhere.

David Hartman

It's a real challenge because, at 6 and 7, these kids may not even know which side to line up on. It's hard for the guys to start from scratch. It's not a smaller version of the high school game. You can't assume anything at this level.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Eleanor Catton

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

It's a big change. It's assumed this will provide some motivation for people to go out and take more bears.

It wasn't that bad. Everyone wants to talk about that, about how much I got beat up. I don't realize what other quarterbacks go through. All I know is what I go through, and I just assume that's pretty much what everyone goes through.

John Manley

It was clearly wrong to assume that this would be a walkover, ... but now I think the market is being a bit too pessimistic.

Jim McGreevey

It was spending patterns of the state historically during 10 years of unprecedented economic prosperity. States began simply to assume that economic growth was going to continue in perpetuity. So part of it was realigning state spending to be much more realistic, to understand the reality of the economic cycle. But here in the state of New Jersey, we confronted the realities of the national economy. Income tax revenues are down 13 percent,

It's a mistake to assume that somehow this is a short-term problem caused by Katrina. This is just a continuation of the track he's been on since January.

It's interesting to me that the questions assume that because I'm Asian-American and Pacific islander that I'm an outsider. But I'm not an outsider to the culture. In hip-hop, you either have something or you make way for someone who does. If you don't have it, step out and learn. I feel I've had to earn my stripes.

Dan Johnson

It was kind of a weird thing. No one out on the field knew what was going on. I just assumed it was his hand because of that ball he knocked down.

It was more than I ever thought I would see, and I just assume never see something like that again.

Kenneth Bacon

It may be that he (Hussein) is preparing to provoke another confrontation with the U.N.. These confrontations have been unsuccessful in the past, and I assume would be unsuccessful in the future as well.