Famous Quotes & Sayings

People make the assumption that their cost of living will go down when they retire, but if you have a lot of health care issues, your cost of living could go up.

State and federal forestry officials granted that money with the assumption that they were dealing with legal entities, which they were not. We need to make sure there are no liability issues.

Michael Nutter

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Our assumption was this was a legally taken bear in a hunting season in another state. It just wasn't disposed of properly.

Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology spending will not show significant improvement probably for another six months.

I think there's an assumption . . . the education stops when you leave the classroom.

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representatives. We proceed from the assumption that Belarus and the United States have relations of their own, determined by a whole set of different factors. That's why we suggested separate visits. We hope our American and European partners will demonstrate in deed and not in word their constructive attitude towards cooperation with Belarus.

The assumption with Trivial Pursuit is never that one person would know all the answers, because it would be a very short game. The assumption is that one person should know half the answers.

The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be criminals, is racist. The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions

The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.

The assumption that everybody wants a bundle is flawed.

The assumption right now is that wild birds are vectors.

The assumption is that you're comfortable with the Internet and e-mail already.

The assumption is that you don't have as much to view as other folks do.

Paul Tagliabue

The assumption is that we can work through this in the next four months. If not, I'll stay on.

The assumption is that energy prices will be moderate. But energy prices can also be very volatile.

The assumption is that a lot of the problems that we're seeing in the semiconductor industry now are related to the economy, and any move by Greenspan to shore up the economic situation we're seeing is going to be very beneficial.

Brent Sutter

That was a two-hour, 45-minute hockey game. There is always the assumption these rules were put in to make the game more entertaining, but that is not entertaining hockey. It's not something you want to see in the game. We can't let it dictate how we need to play, but it makes it difficult to coach.

I was under the assumption that you were going to bring a plan.

John Davidson

I think people are looking beyond the unemployment report and into the future, ... The current economic environment is certainly weak, but maybe there's the assumption that it will get better.

James Lankford

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.

It is difficult for us to convince people that yes, this is possible. I have to make the assumption that we are not going to make those goals.

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Paul Tagliabue

Kind of the assumption is that we can work through this in the next four months, and I'll be ready to move on by the end of July.

Antonin Scalia

I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excluded.

Based on the assumption that all precautions are taken as requested, we consider the difference in risk between U.S. and Japanese beef to be extremely small.

Chet Faker

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

It is a big assumption that the weather of the future is going to be represented by weather of the past.

I think the biggest assumption about Vista that will likely be untrue is that it will be dull/dowdy and/or fail to effectively compete, at least for objective customers, with Mac OS. Revitalized competition in the OS space is going to be great for all customers, in any case.

Andrew Hill

It is probable that most contracts are not renewed at Yale, ... There's no assumption of moving on down the line, for example there's no assumption of tenure. That's how it is.

If we were to conduct our projection now, the assumption would be for higher oil prices than in the March projection.