We Presume Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
— Edmund Burke
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume…
— Cynthia Heimel
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness…
— Bill W.
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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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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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A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.
— Joan D. Chittister
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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
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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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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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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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We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the…
— John Strachan
Who Wrote These We Presume Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 We Presume Quotes as follows: