Best Presume Quotes
159 Presume quotes by 150 unique authors
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The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I…
— Martin Freeman
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
— Paris Hilton
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I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
— Juliet Stevenson
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I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.
— Robert Kirkman
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly…
— Alexander Pope
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And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and…
— Samuel Adams
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I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason…
— Charles Hodge
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As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is…
— John Paul Stevens
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The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) -…
— Thomas Guthrie
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...…
— Plato
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We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.
— Pope Vigilius
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
— Samuel Johnson
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You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
— Andrew Card
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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life,…
— William Banting
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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex…
— Rick Perlstein
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
— C.S. Lewis
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Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this…
— Robert E. Lee
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When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it…
— Lawrence Block
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I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . .…
— Samuel Beckett
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one…
— Robert Ardrey
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Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.
— Jessie J
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
— Seneca the Younger
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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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