Presumptuous Quotes - Page 2

• Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Océano, Otoño, Pensamiento

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). "Collected Works", New York, NY : Library of America : Distribuido al comercio en los EE.UU. y Canadá por Viking Press

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• I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Education, Stupid, Pride

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• No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Liberty, Yoke

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• I wouldn't want to be so presumptuous as to suggest what my neighbors should or shouldn't do. Great insights might come out of drug dealing and prostitution. I'm not qualified to say. Not that I would promote those practices. I just respect the complexity of their cultural ecosystem and think it would be pretty lame, not to mention fruitless, to waltz in with some kind of reformative agenda.

  Kirsha Kaechele

  Thinking, Drug, Kind

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.

  Albert Ellis

  Religious, Sex, Real

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• The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Ideas

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• remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Humility, May, Remember

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• 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.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Learning, Achievement, Wish

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.

  Ben Rector

  Creer, Personas, Sentimientos

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• No se trata de vivir peligrosamente. Esa fórmula es demasiado arrogante, demasiado presuntuosa. No me gustan mucho los toreros. No es el peligro lo que amo. Sé lo que amo. Es la vida misma.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Arrogant, Bulls, Care

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• Los finales nunca son limpios, porque cuando la vida continúa, no hay final. Tal vez quiera especular sobre lo que harán los personajes después, pero me parecería presuntuoso por mi parte dictarlo.

  Stef Penney

  Character, Want, Would Be

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

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• The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Dirt, Sin

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• You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Years, Two, Gentleman

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan Brownell Anthony (1872). “Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony, and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the Arguments Thereon Before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate”, p.19

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• How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  Kids, Thinking, Eight

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• I came out to Los Angeles for a couple of meetings in the summer of 2005, and I ended up getting a movie called Firehouse Dog for Fox. And I thought, "Oh, man. I'm doing a movie. Maybe I'll work a lot more now. I'm an actor now." Then, for eight, nine months I didn't work after that. After that movie, I began to get some guest star roles, fairly consistently, but because I had been so presumptuous before in thinking that the other jobs would lead to something, I realized: "Just get up. Go to work. Go home. This is your job just like everyone else's job."

  Teddy Sears

  Summer, Dog, Couple

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.

  Bill Hamon

  Missing, Immature, Ignorant

  Bill Hamon, Oral Roberts (2011). “Prophets and Personal Prophecy: God's Prophetic Voice Today”, p.108, Destiny Image Publishers

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• There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Justice, Feelings, Humanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• El retratista... Si insulta a sus modelos, pierde su oficio. Si pinta los hombros en lugar de los rasgos, o estos últimos con todos sus defectos naturales, es tan presuntuoso como si gritara: "¡Qué cara! Escóndelo", lo que nunca haría, aunque es análogo a lo que los paisajistas hacen todos los días.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Portraits, Gone, Portraiture

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• 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!-

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Care, Way, Speak

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• For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Personality, Poet

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1853). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.226

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• You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

  Edwin Land

  Thinking, Heaven, Lines

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• You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.” “You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things.

  Richelle Mead

  Moverse, Pensar, Espacio

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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• Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Names, Sides, Ears

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1309, Delphi Classics

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• Personalmente, me parece presuntuoso creer que el hombre puede determinar toda la estructura temporal del universo, su evolución, desarrollo y destino final desde el primer nanosegundo de la creación hasta los últimos 10^10 años, basándose en tres o cuatro hechos que no se conocen con mucha exactitud y que son objeto de disputa entre los expertos.

  John N. Bahcall

  Believe, Fate, Science

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• A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.

  Carlos Castañeda

  Life, Appreciation, Warrior

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