Quotes of Presume - somelinesforyou

“ A am realistic — I expect miracles. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself. ”

- Marguerite de Valois

“ There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much — if he lives and uses that in hand day by day — shall be full to running over. ”

- Edgar Cayce

“ We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ”

- William Orville Douglas

“ Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ What you don't know doesn't hurt you; it's what you suspect that causes all the trouble. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head. Tthis world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Second guesses in putting are fatal. ”

- Bobby Locke

“ A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ Suppose they gave a war, and no one came? ”

- Leslie Parrish Bach

“ Laywers, I suppose, were children once. ”

- Jane Bryant Quinn

“ He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short. ”

- Al Lopez

“ She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next. ”

- Iggy Pop

“ I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. ”

- Brian Molko

“ I don't believe what I just saw! ”

- Jack Buck

“ I guess it's a cliche, but I can't think of anybody who didn't like him. ”

- Dennis Weaver

“ If you do something, expect consequences. ”

- Larry King

“ I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. ”

- Robert Crumb

“ Never in my wildest dreams, Michael, that - never did I think that I - I thought that - I'd be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. ”

- James Baldwin

“ But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. ”

- Henry Ford

“ We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within ust simply reveals what we are made of already. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ 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

“ If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Know thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Let us be content to work, to do the thing we can, and not presume to fret because it is little. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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