A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft 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 almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos. — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child… — Tea Leoni 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
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids. — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters… — Stef Penney 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
Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous;… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous. — Brendan Benson 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
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