Praesupponit Quotes

#1. Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.

Francois Rabelais

#2. Laughing is such a pure and natural thing I try to laugh every day. Think that's one of the most important things in life.

Bill Kaulitz

#3. The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

#4. All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Steve Almond

#5. If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Jerome K. Jerome

#6. The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

Alicia Keys

#7. I did bully somebody. I was insecure.

Matt Lauria

#8. And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

Tupac Shakur

#9. The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

William Wharton

#10. Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

Leslie Mann

#11. I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

Edward Abbey

#12. We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.

Nikesh Shukla