In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was… — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous. — Brendan Benson Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
