Famous Quotes & Sayings

My client didn't know (Campbell) was dying from a heart attack. He's not a medical doctor. He made a logical assumption that this person is passed out drunk.

Steve Spurrier

Who knows what's going to happen? I've never gone on the assumption where we have a winning season this year, we're going to have one next year. We could get clobbered next year.

You don't expose potentially tens of millions of women to a powerful treatment with the assumption it's going to help them, ... looks very promising, but the question is for which patients, at what cost in toxicity.

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.

Zoe Kazan

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

Srikumar Rao

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

Charles Kennedy

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

We were under the assumption that the district knew of our continued arrangement with the lab after Flow Science left,

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.

Geoff Tate

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

The market is not priced for oil prices at record highs and rising interest rates and slowing earnings momentum and terrorist worries. People are pretty complacent out there. The assumption is that the economy is mending and that this will be a robust, self-sustaining recovery.

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption ... that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season,

Paul Tagliabue

At this point you have to proceed on the assumption . . . that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire sea- son,

That's been the biggest surprise to me. We're a wholesaler of Internet telephony, and our initial assumption was that the first customers would be ISPs looking to extend their traditional business to include voice. But it's been the traditional resellers selling prepaid calling cards that have moved quickly.

Despite the common assumption that New Year's Eve is a wall-to-wall party, this poll finds that most people will be safe at home celebrating with friends and family, with the Times Square countdown in the background.

Our conclusion is based on the assumption that all the conditions are met. If those conditions are broken, our conclusion is no longer valid.

Other people can make certain assumptions that could change that (funding) number. A minor change to one assumption can have a change in the funding status. It doesn't mean their number is any more or less correct. We believe our number is appropriate.

People are tired of Northwest and their labor problems. Customers' patience is at end. It's a fair assumption to make that if so many people in Detroit didn't have to rely on Northwest to fly, nobody would pay attention to them at all.

Eric's assumption of Avanir's strategic and tactical reins augurs well for its future.