Quotes About Presumptuous

I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.

Self-starter, eh?" he heard the presumptuous pilot say. "I know how to operate that. What's this little mirror for? Oh, yes, to index the curves. Pshaw! I can't go wrong if I watch that." "Can't you? Oh, my!" muttered Dave.

When I was a child grown-ups often told me to smile, which I found presumptuous of them. People still tell me that sometimes, mostly idiots at parties.

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.

You're very presumptuous, you know," she said, but she smiled. He smiled right back. Confident. "You're very beautiful, you know." She

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

I had feared to be presumptuous; of building up a fairyland out of dreams; of yielding to my imagination rather than to my good sense. And yet, deep down in some inner consciousness, a faint insidious hope had whispered to itself that if I showed myself worthy, perhaps-perhaps- And now perhaps had become reality, and all doubt and mistrust a vanished dream.

I guess you're the same in all places, shoving your advice in when nobody asks for it.

I did not want to quarrel with her, although I thought her both presumptuous and rude.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Inequality is the deepest of problems, built into the structure of reality itself, and will not be solved by the presumptuous, ideology-inspiring retooling of the rare free, stable and productive democracies of the world.

That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

Gastar dinero en: máquinas para hacer pasta, máquinas para hacer helados, u otros aparatos culinarios que nunca utilizaré; libros de autores ilegibles para colocar presuntuosamente en las estanterías; ropa interior exótica, ya que, al no tener novio, carece de sentido.

It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to become an Anglo-American democracy overnight - just as it is naive to expect it in other parts of the world.

Good fortune and bad are both fine tests of a man's character. Mesmer had not been boastful or presumptuous in the days of his fame, and now, when the world had suddenly forgotten him, he was modest and stoical. Far from making any attempt to attract attention to himself, when an endeavor was made to recall him into the limelight he rejected the overture.

You know what I am? he says. What? I'm an ordinary person. Come on. I know. Who isn't an ordinary person? How horribly presumptuous to want to be anything else. But I have to tell you. I've been treated as something special for so long and I've tried my hardest to be something special but I'm not, I'm not exceptional, I'm smart enough, but I'm not brilliant and I'm not spiritual or even all that focused. I think I can stand that, but I'm not sure if the people around me can.

Like all judgmental people, she thought she knew best.

Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?' 'What, precisely, are you trying to justify? And to me, or yourself?' She glared, then quickened her pace. 'You're no fun at all,' she sniffed as she pulled ahead, 'and presumptuous as well. I'm going to talk with Tool, his moods don't swing!' No, they just hang there, twisting in the wind.

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.

Witches have animals they can talk to, called familiars. Like your toad there. I'm not familiar, said a voice from among the paper flowers. I'm just slightly presumptuous.

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.