Presumptuous Quotes
Presumptuous Quote of the day
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.
It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.
Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.
How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.
People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.
I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.
You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.
