Presumptuously Quotes

#1. Its theme
the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters
was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse ... To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful.

Robert Frost

#3. Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#5. That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Madame De Stael

#6. Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

George Herbert

#7. Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.

Nick Tosches

#8. I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

Ethel Waters

#9. It's just,' he said. 'If you don't want to be with him, you shouldn't be.

Andrea Cremer

#10. She thought, If I or my father or any Boughton has ever stirred the Lord's compassion, then Jack will be all right. Because perdition for him would be perdition for every one of us.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive

Munia Khan

#12. Where Melisandre thinks to find a sleeping dragon, no one is quite sure. It's nonsense. Mance's blood is no more royal than mine own.

George R R Martin

#13. Always know in your heart that God is by your side; he never abandons you! Let us never lose hope! Let us never allow it to die in our hearts!

Pope Francis

#14. Among the tiny atomic structures the plankton take to the grave with them are two very stable isotopes - oxygen-16 and oxygen-18.

Bill Bryson

#15. If I wasn't so happy he was alive, I would've killed him.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#16. Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

#17. And For You Zero, A Life Sized Vudu Doll"
-Kaname Kuran
"I DONT WANT IT!"
-Zero Kiryu
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
-Juri Elizabeth Marin

Matsuri Hino

#18. Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Honore De Balzac

#19. The spirit of light is the soul of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#21. The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

Jack London

#22. Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Mel Gibson