“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” — Pere La Combe Copy Share Image
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
“And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
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