Presumably Quotes

87 Presumably quotes by 78 unique authors

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work… — Frederick Buechner
Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course, they’d been referring… — Derek Landy
Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency… — Mary Roach
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all… — Martin Heidegger
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult… — James Salter
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence. — Rafael Sabatini
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you,… — M. John Harrison
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is… — Lionel Shriver
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the… — Richard Dawkins
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it?… — Harold Bloom
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no… — Edward Gorey
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman. — Kurt Vonnegut
I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise… — David Attenborough
Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It… — Libba Bray
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot… — John Green
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that… — Stephen Hawking
Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and… — Judith McNaught
Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her. — Erin Morgenstern
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile… — Neal Stephenson
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice… — Joyce Carol Oates
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Unknown Author
In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays… — Monica Crowley
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live… — Scott Stossel

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