Famous Quotes & Sayings

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

My guys always make you assume they're playing worse than they are. I think they do that because I tell them I don't want to know exactly where they are, because I don't want them to know exactly where they are. I don't want them thinking about anything other than the next shot.

Never assume your lender will take charge of your finance. Take a pro-active role in managing your own personal finance. It is your matter, not theirs.

Jan Berry

Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch.

Robin Yount

Ned has been trying to get me back for quite a few years and the time just hasn't been right for me personally. I've been trying to get the family out of the house and get the kids grown up and move on. I always assumed I would go back one day to Milwaukee in some capacity, and I was very fortunate that the time to come back is now with these really talented young players that we have and hopefully get to watch their progress.

NATO nations have assumed their collective responsibilities toward Turkey, a nation at the moment under threat.

Del Shannon

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

Given the current situation, where airlines, some of them in bankruptcy, are dropping and changing routes, you simply need to assume they forgot to call you if an itinerary changed or got canceled. Don't assume they'll take care of you if they do change the schedule, and don't assume that what you booked, especially on an award ticket, is what you will actually fly. It's a difficult time for airlines, and that makes it a difficult time for travelers.

get to the point that the public will assume that a show is good and worth their time, no matter if they've heard of who's playing that night.

Dick Cheney

Four years ago, some said the world had grown calm, and many assumed that the United States was invulnerable to danger. That thought might have been comforting; it was also false. Like other generations of Americans, we soon discovered that history had great and unexpected duties in store for us.

From an individual point of view, wouldn't you rather be a person who has a problem for one year instead of for three years? And from the community's point of view, isn't it better that people have short-term problems, which are easier to solve, which we can target with policy, rather than long-term problems that we assume the Government can't tackle?

From what we have today, we would assume that within couple years we'll have the majority attacked.

If a parent calls a child in sick, then we assume that that child is home sick, so we aren't able to tell by our attendance numbers if the students are sick, if they're at the doctor's appointment, if they're at the march.

If a company has a firewall or its Internet connection is separated from the network, it may assume it doesn't have to worry, In terms of threats to an enterprise's security, most losses occur inside the company. The model where we put a moat outside to keep the bad guys out is not very useful.

Dick Durbin

I don't think we should assume that's going to happen at all.

I don't think you can assume the Fed's tightening cycle is done,

I don't want to assume anything yet, I think that's a hypothetical situation. But I will say this: Jamie Martin was born and raised in this system and knows the system as good as anybody.

Bob Hill

I don't think it's a real bad sprain, but it's very sore, so he's not going to play tonight. I assume it will be a day-to-day situation.

Anthony Marra

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

David Chang

I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?

Vince Carter

I felt bad. It was far from what they assumed it to be.

I feel this is key because I think people assume that their families are going to want them at the house at a certain time,

John Novak

If, indeed, Wachovia did pull out, that would certainly cause some people concern. It reduces the number of potential bidders and people assume that reduces the likelihood of a deal.

Hayden Fry

I didn't have any idea what happened to Ivory. I assumed he went back to California.

Jason Segel

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

I can't say it with 100% certainty that every code can correspond with everything unless you know the key and the only person who knows the key is the person who made the code. But it sounds very reasonable to assume that it's correct.

I don't have any indication one way or the other right now, but I assume that he will join the team, ... As far as I'm concerned, he's property of the Nets. Obviously, he has the prerogative of retiring, but we're going to have a conversation with him and see what transpires. I don't think he wants to retire.

Jaime Pressly

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

I don't know (what people are saying), and I really don't care. I would just assume keep sneaking up on people.

William Burroughs

I dont care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

I do not think stocks should have a bid premium built into them. That assumes that there is a good reason to buy them.

Marc Bulger

I'd assume three quarters. In the third game, you usually get your most playing time, especially in a short week. You don't want to have to play much on Friday.

I'd assume he can convert it and pay some of his legal bills, and that is perfectly OK with me.