Best Presume Words
159 Presume quotes by 150 unique authors
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
— John Hodgman
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
— John Irving
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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the…
— Stephen Leacock
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Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.
— Elmore Leonard
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with…
— Aimee Mullins
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
— Alexander Pope
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
— Samuel Richardson
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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do…
— Jose Saramago
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If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is…
— George Will
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Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike…
— James Wolcott
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
— William Shakespeare
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I…
— Barry Goldwater
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
— Graham Greene
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He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is…
— Susanna Clarke
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Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one…
— Norah Vincent
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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as…
— Emily Dickinson
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
— Herman Melville
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We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is…
— Milan Kundera
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Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part…
— Glen Duncan
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I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with…
— Mary Hoffman
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We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of…
— Beryl Markham
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume…
— Aldous Huxley
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You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume…
— Nick Hornby
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I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I…
— Charlaine Harris
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it…
— Barbara Mertz
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