Quotes About Presume

at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is

It occurs to me that boredom and panic are the two devils the solitary must combat. When I lay down this afternoon, I could not rest and finally got up because I was in a sweat of panic, panic for no definable reason, a panic of solitude, I presume.

He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.

Where is he?" Violet demanded without preamble. "My husband, I presume?" "No, your great-uncle Edmund," Violet practically snapped. "Of course I mean your husband.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

I wondered if, in some way that I did not understand, he was using that knowledge to presume an intimacy between us, as if we shared a secret that was exciting because it was dangerous to both of us.

Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more. And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too

The success of 'X-Men' paved the way, I have to presume, for Sony to make Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man.'

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.

One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica, or of their family Chihuahua, don't actually like music very much.

Then it's not,' says I, 'and we're after having a pleasant evening, Miss Flynn. Have ye seen the sights of this new Coney Island, then? I presume ye have come here for that purpose,' says I.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

cannot avoid the temptation of wondering whether there is any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.