Being Presumptuous Quotes

#1. (1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning.

J.C. Ryle

#2. Be so without being presumptuous, imposing "our truths," but rather be guided by the humble yet joyful certainty of those who have been found, touched, and transformed by the Truth who is Christ, ever to be proclaimed (see Luke 24:13

Pope Francis

#3. I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

George Burns

#4. No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

John Cage

#5. Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

Lady Caroline Lamb

#6. Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#7. I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

Jane Siberry

#8. He's got a new BMW now, thanks to the Galaxy. He can't spell it, but he can drive it like crazy.

Lawrence Block

#9. Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Alexander Crummell

#10. She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!

Bram Stoker

#11. Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all. But I know for sure that they did happen.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.

Taylor Hawkins

#13. Stay out of this, buddy. You're lucky I'm not booking you for that F-word you let slip. America doesn't tolerate that kind of potty-mouthing.

Benjamin R. Smith

#14. Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Muhammad Ali

#15. However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Charles Baudelaire

#16. school graduation. I love him, even though the times - a lot of times I really needed it - he couldn't say, 'I'm here.

Nora Roberts

#17. I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

Moon Unit Zappa