Presumably Quotes
87 Presumably quotes by 78 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.
— Rafael Sabatini
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Presumably Quotes
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