Presumed Quotes

66 Presumed quotes by 60 unique authors

Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal? — Dan Savage
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed… — Dallas Willard
Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returns — Claude C. Hopkins
One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity. — Julius Streicher
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. — Tom Robbins
I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a… — Larry Merchant
Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have… — Arthur Koestler
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it… — Pope John Paul II
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These… — Kenny Smith
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can… — Ann Coulter
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton
All are presumed good till they are found at fault. — George Herbert
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. — William A. Dembski
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in… — James Madison
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And… — Richard Dawson
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the… — Umberto Eco
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.' — Aimee Mullins
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to… — Tom Robbins
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate… — Paul Fussell
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and… — Nick Hornby
I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've… — Pete Hautman
…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy… — Robert M. Pirsig
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century… — Douglas Adams

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