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159 Presume quotes by 150 unique authors

Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths… — Sebastian Smee
Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about… — Nell Freudenberger
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation… — Orson Pratt
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But… — Ernestine Rose
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge. — Joan D. Chittister
It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us… — Oswald Chambers
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard… — Charles Handy
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no… — Leigh Hunt
Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most… — John McCain
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'… — John Cassian
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. — N. T. Wright
To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a… — Hunter S. Thompson
For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that… — Martin Luther
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume. — Saint Augustine
No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are… — Charles James Fox
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,… — James Madison
When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really… — Pope John Paul II
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons… — James Henley Thornwell
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed… — Jane Austen
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a… — Christian Nestell Bovee
It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always… — Mark Beeson
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts. — Cesare Borgia
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by… — William Shakespeare

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