Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

There's a perception that the economy is actually doing quite well, in particular the labor market. It's a fairly straightforward assumption the Fed would want to hike rates in March and perhaps in May. You might see bond yields go higher.

Al Gini

There's an assumption that executives are there to do the right thing.

There's an assumption people make that low scoring requires small ball. If you know it's going to be 2-1 in the ninth way back in the second inning, that's great, but you don't. The home run is still the one thing that has unquestioned value. People are going to keep going for the fences.

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

They tape everything in the casino and save it. But, apparently, the FBI confiscated the tapes, which show Annette leaving the casino and show in which direction she was going, and that would show who, if anyone, she left the casino with. It is my assumption she left with a crew member.

A lot of people made the assumption that it was in the bank, but it wasn't. I thought Jeremy handled the pressure extraordinarily well. His run was quite good, he just made a little error and it ended up costing us.

A lot of the studios were scared that when you don't have a narrative, especially with these kinds of game show-type programs, that there might not be enough interest out there for people to buy it. But the assumption that people don't want to have them on their shelves is wrong. Just like there are fans of 'Charmed' and 'The OC,' they want to own every episode of 'Survivor.

They know it won't be long before the limit will go up. They start making the loans on the assumption that the limit will be increased because home prices have been rising.

This is purely assumption on my part, but there were vehicles in the driveway and the lights were on. I believe that he knew that they were there,

Think of it like electricity. When you plug in a cord you are making an assumption about infrastructure.

This is an assumption but a very serious assumption.

This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing. We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.

This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing, ... We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.

It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children and had made a conscious decision to chose a lifestyle without (other people's) children.

David Daniels

It raises questions about the stability of all the other walls. At a minimum we expect the Corps will reanalyze all the walls on the assumption that this same failure mechanism could occur elsewhere.

Isaiah Berlin

For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.

Ron Rash

You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers.

There wasn't a trail that led to an assumption of (Nevin) trying to influence anything.

Kweisi Mfume

There ought to be a basic assumption that black people, Latinos, Asians, native Americans and women, for that matter, can do something other than carry bags, make beds and wash dishes,

There once was a time that the assumption was that the origin of life, everything from building simple compounds up to complex life, had to happen here on Earth. We've discovered that some very biologically interesting molecules can be formed outside our earthly environment and delivered here.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton Friedman

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

I'd say that's an assumption on his part,

I don't want to do something with the assumption that it's going to create all this work for the BZA.

James Cromwell

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Isaac Asimov

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Gwen Moore

By the eleventh grade I realized with horror that my assumption of attending college was no more than that - an assumption.

Neal A. Maxwell

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

(The departments) have worked very closely together for years and years and years. It has been pretty much the assumption that, at some point in time, the fire and EMS departments would merge.

Jerry Yang

The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.

The comments by Tim Adams were a bombshell. This is the first clear warning in a very long time by the U.S. that Japan shouldn't cap the rise in the yen. The implicit assumption is the yen will indeed strengthen.

Henry Giroux

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.