The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume Copy Share Image
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. — DMX Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
