Great Presumption Quotes

#1. Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

George Crabbe

#2. It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

Joseph Addison

#3. knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces. Yet

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. Vishnu came in the form of Hitler to be an inspiration for the Kalki to come.

Kedar Joshi

#5. A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Fred Brooks

#6. But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

William Scranton

#7. There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

Chris Bohjalian

#9. There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Joy Harjo

#10. To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As

Carlo Rovelli

#11. I knew something about loneliness, knew what it was to sit in my room, checking my phone for texts that never came, logging onto Facebook to see other people's statuses, happy statuses indicating their lives had gone on while mine hadn't.

Alex Flinn

#12. The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ...

Baruch Spinoza

#13. If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

Robin S. Sharma

#14. Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.

Jamgon Kongtrul

#15. Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. My dream was to ride a horse from Mongolia to Hungary, 10,000 km across the great Eurasian Steppe, and in doing so, come to understand the nomadic cultures that have presided there for thousands of years.

Tim Cope

#17. This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

Bradley Whitford

#18. Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

Warren G

#19. Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

Bradley Nowell