He assumed that the train would be on time.

I thought it would be all right.

I figured that would make you laugh.

I figured it was easier to do it this way.

Clarke believed that astronauts would be dispatched to maintain and operate communication satellites.

Havel, however, believed until the last moment that the common state could be saved.

Richard Dawkins He was. Good. I thought he must have been.

I thought it might be a possibility.

He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.

Carl Schmitt believed that knowing one's enemy was the essential ingredient of politics.

Tocqueville believed that there are no effective long term constraints on this tendency.

We have a lot more in common than I realized.

While Nixon believed the US was in decline, the others did not.

'The promise was given before, and I thought the question about my son had settled the matter...

And because, quite rightly, they were saying psychology is about finding what's wrong with you. Spot the loony.

I always thought that Wuffli and Ospel were a dream team, says the banking research, Hans Geiger.

He was highly conservative and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II.

He believed that the solution to stagflation was that those with deficits should get rid of them.

I assumed that I was supposed to be provoked into unguarded comments, a method that fashionable TV journalists everywhere use nowadays.

He believed China could leapfrog the lost years in which the world had passed it by, but only with American support.

I have always assumed that the Germans would eventually recognize that their interests lie in preserving the eurozone intact.

'But I understood that Anna Arkadyevna declined a divorce if I insisted on keeping my son.

He maintained that he thought she was a rebel sniper when he took her in for questioning in 2000.

He believed that it should be possible to resolve the student protests and respect the principles of democracy and the rule of law.

First, the stakes have been raised much higher than anyone thought six months ago.

Rudra assumed that caste existed in ancient India because, despite the unreliable historical record, the caste system is so manifest even today.

Moreover, Friedman believed that even when private interests were not aligned with public interests, that government could not be relied on to fix the problem.

Von Braun predicted that the US would need to launch 364 space shuttles in less than one year to prepare for the first lunar voyage.

He also believed that Soviet control over an empire in Eastern Europe was costing too much and providing too little benefit, and that the invasion of Afghanistan had been a costly disaster.

Quite simply, he thought that America could go it alone in pursuing his foreign policy because no one could stop him.

Yitzhak Rabin believed that an Israeli Arab peace could prevent a nuclear Iran, but now his nightmare seems rapidly approaching.

Reagan believed that if he could persuade the Soviets to allow for more democracy and free speech, this would lead to reform and the end of Communism.

I felt that a second term for Obama, free from the pressures of future elections, would fulfill the hope that we had heard of for so long.

Bluth believed older techniques were being abandoned in favor of lower production costs, and the only way animation could survive was to continue traditional production methods.

'Well, let's grant it is so,' said Levin, though he did not grant it at all. 'Still, I don't see why I should he bothered with it.'

What the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 said was, look, if people are taping stuff off the radio and then making mixtapes for their friends, that is not a crime. That's okay.

Keating believed that the fighting at Kokoda represented the real birth pains of an independent Australia, not some colonial appendage of Britain created to serve imperial purposes in the Far East.

The West thought it had moved on after the fall of the Soviet empire, but the region and increasingly the global community continues to pay a heavy price for this unholy project.

This is good news for China s economy, but disappointing, perhaps, to those who assumed that the government would allow the bubble to grow bigger and bigger, eventually precipitating a crash.

But John Maynard Keynes pointed out that surpluses lead to weak global aggregate demand countries running surpluses exert a negative externality on their trading partners. Indeed, Keynes believed that it was surplus countries, far more than deficit countries, that posed a threat to global prosperity he went so far as to recommend a tax on surplus countries.

Indeed, Keynes believed that it was surplus countries, far more than deficit countries, that posed a threat to global prosperity he went so far as to recommend a tax on surplus countries.

Not only did Grass define Israel as a threat to world peace he also noted that he had remained silent for so long simply because he believed that his own origins, tarnished by a stain that can never be removed, denied him the right to speak the truth.

Like most astronomers before him, Ptolemy believed the Sun, Moon, and other planets circled the Earth. He thought that each space body moved in a small circle (an epicycle) that was itself orbiting Earth.

John Maynard Keynes, an architect of Bretton Woods, believed that the true lesson of the failures of the Depression era 1930 s lay precisely in the character of the large and chaotic 1933 London World Economic Conference.

Salvation does not lie in better risk management by either regulators or banks, but, as Keynes believed, in taking adequate precautions against uncertainty.